https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59200

--- Comment #5 from Alex Thurgood <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> In MySQL, "0000-00-00 00:00:00" is not a NULL value, but a zero timestamp.
> NULL and "0000-00-00 00:00:00" are distinct values. "0000-00-00 00:00:00" is
> a MySQL-specific idiosyncrasy, an "anomalous" value which does *not* conform
> to (from memory) the SQL standard, nor ODBC:
>

Yes, I've always had misgivings about the way MySQL considered invalid dates...


> The MySQL ODBC Connector (the driver provided by MySQL) has an option
> "convert zero date/timestamp to NULL" so as not to leak these anomalous
> values to ODBC applications; if the column is "NOT NULL", then it may
> confuse applications in other ways :-| I haven't tested how LibreOffice
> reacts to this (NULL in a non-NULLable column).
> 

I will have a look to see if the Actual Technologies has such a parameter
somewhere.

Alex

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