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Asked: 2026-06-09T06:57:01+00:00

I stumble upon a mysql timestamp insert problem with the date value larger than

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I stumble upon a mysql timestamp insert problem with the date value larger than current date
now the following step is

CREATE TABLE foo(
`ID` INT(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`test_time`TIMESTAMP NULL DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`ID`)
); 

INSERT INTO foo(test_time) VALUES('2038-01-19 11:14:08'); // fail
INSERT INTO foo(test_time) VALUES('2038-01-19 11:14:07'); // ok
INSERT INTO foo(test_time) VALUES('2038-01-18 23:59:00'); // ok
INSERT INTO foo(test_time) VALUES('2039-01-01 00:00:00'); // fail

fail means the test_time value is 0000-00-00 00:00:00
my timezone is UTC+8
I want to know whether 2038-01-19 11:14:07 is the max timestamp of mysql support,what’s the meaningful moment of this time?

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  1. Editorial Team

    To store higher values for dates you must use DATETIME datatype.

    TIMESTAMP has a range from '1970-01-01 00:00:01' UTC to '2038-01-19 03:14:07' UTC

    DATETIME has a range from '1000-01-01 00:00:00' to '9999-12-31 23:59:59'

    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/datetime.html

    As suggested by @Joachim Isaksson: PHP & mySQL: Year 2038 Bug: What is it? How to solve it?

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