'0000-00-00 00:00:00' can not be represented as java.sql.Timestamp error

Question

You can use this JDBC URL directly in your data source configuration:

jdbc:mysql://yourserver:3306/yourdatabase?zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull

Whether or not the "date" '0000-00-00" is a valid "date" is irrelevant to the question. "Just change the database" is seldom a viable solution.

Facts:

• MySQL allows a date with the value of zeros.
• This "feature" enjoys widespread use with other languages.

So, if I "just change the database", thousands of lines of PHP code will break.

Java programmers need to accept the MySQL zero-date and they need to put a zero date back into the database, when other languages rely on this "feature".

A programmer connecting to MySQL needs to handle null and 0000-00-00 as well as valid dates. Changing 0000-00-00 to null is not a viable option, because then you can no longer determine if the date was expected to be 0000-00-00 for writing back to the database.

For 0000-00-00, I suggest checking the date value as a string, then changing it to ("y",1), or ("yyyy-MM-dd",0001-01-01), or into any invalid MySQL date (less than year 1000, iirc). MySQL has another "feature": low dates are automatically converted to 0000-00-00.

I realize my suggestion is a kludge. But so is MySQL's date handling. And two kludges don't make it right. The fact of the matter is, many programmers will have to handle MySQL zero-dates forever.

Append the following statement to the JDBC-mysql protocol:

?zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull&autoReconnect=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&characterSetResults=UTF-8

for example:

jdbc:mysql://localhost/infra?zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull&autoReconnect=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&characterSetResults=UTF-8

Instead of using fake dates like 0000-00-00 00:00:00 or 0001-01-01 00:00:00 (the latter should be accepted as it is a valid date), change your database schema, to allow NULL values.

ALTER TABLE table_name MODIFY COLUMN date TIMESTAMP NULL

As an exteme turnaround, when you cannot do an alter to your date column or to update the values, or while these modifications take place, you can do a select using a case/when.

SELECT CASE ModificationDate WHEN '0000-00-00 00:00:00' THEN '1970-01-01 01:00:00' ELSE ModificationDate END AS ModificationDate FROM Project WHERE projectId=1;

I wrestled with this problem and implemented the URL concatenation solution contributed by @Kushan in the accepted answer above. It worked in my local MySql instance. But when I deployed my Play/Scala app to Heroku it no longer would work. Heroku also concatenates several args to the DB URL that they provide users, and this solution, because of Heroku's use concatenation of "?" before their own set of args, will not work. However I found a different solution which seems to work equally well.

SET sql_mode = 'NO_ZERO_DATE';

I put this in my table descriptions and it solved the problem of '0000-00-00 00:00:00' can not be represented as java.sql.Timestamp

you can try like This

ArrayList<String> dtlst = new ArrayList<String>();
String qry1 = "select dt_tracker from gs";

Statement prepst = conn.createStatement();
ResultSet rst = prepst.executeQuery(qry1);
while(rst.next())
{
    String dt = "";
    try
    {
        dt = rst.getDate("dt_tracker")+" "+rst.getTime("dt_tracker");
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
        dt = "0000-00-00 00:00:00";
    }

    dtlst.add(dt);
}