How to insert moment JS time into MySQL

Question

//In Node/JS myDate = moment(data.myTime.format('YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS')).toISOString(); //myDate shows '2014-09-24T04:09:00.000Z'  Insert INTO (dateColumn..) Values(myDate)... 

This is the error I get after inserting, note column in Mysql is a "datetime" type.

MySQL Error:: { [Error: ER_TRUNCATED_WRONG_VALUE: Incorrect datetime value: '2014-09- 24T04:09:00.000Z' for column '_dateColumn' at row 1] code: 'ER_TRUNCATED_WRONG_VALUE',

Answer 1

This result happens because you are using the toISOString() method and it is not a valid format to insert into your DATETIME column. The correct format probably is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS(I think it depends on MySQL configuration, but this is the default) as the docs points out.

So you should try using moment's format() method like this:

myDate =  moment(data.myTime.format('YYYY/MM/DD HH:mm:ss')).format("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss"); 

In fact, I don't know what data.myTime is, but if its a moment object too, you can change the first format() method and remove the second one.