MYSQL incorrect DATETIME format

Question

I have an app with Doctrine 1 and I generate update_datetime fields for objects via new Zend_Date->getIso(). It worked just fine for years, but now I got a new notebook and Doctrine tries to insert a DATETIME fields as a string "2013-07-12T03:00:00+07:00" instead of normal MySQL datetime format "2013-07-12 00:00:00" which is totally weird.

The very same code runs just fine on another computer. Everything is nearly identical – MySQL 5.6.12, PHP 5.3.15 on both. Any idea where should I look?

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Doctrine_Connection_Mysql_Exception' with message 'SQLSTATE[22007]: Invalid datetime format: 1292 Incorrect datetime value: '2013-07-12T03:00:00+07:00' for column 'nextrun' at row 1' in library/Doctrine/Connection.php:1083

UPDATE

Ok with the help from StackOverflow community I finally solved it. The problem was with STRICT_TRANS_TABLES in sql_mode variable. But changing it in /etc/my.cnf seemed not enough, so I had to run mysql -uroot and type the following:

set sql_mode=NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION; set global sql_mode=NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION;

Thus removing STRICT_TRANS_TABLES

UPDATE2 How to get rid of STRICT forever? How to get rid of STRICT SQL mode in MySQL

Answer 1

If it exists, you can try removing STRICT_TRANS_TABLES from sql-mode in your my.ini.

This can cause this error with a datetime string value containing the format you have not being converted to mysql datetime. This my.ini change was reported as a fix in:

• PING causes 500 Internal Server Error - Incorrect datetime value (AuthPuppy Bug #907203)

Answer 2

Date constants in zend are determined from sniffing out locale in this order (form zend_locale comments)

1. Given Locale
2. HTTP Client
3. Server Environment
4. Framework Standard

I'm thinking the difference between the two systems is going to be reflected in the Server Environment.

To correct and avoid this problem in the future you can specify the locale options within your application.ini using these configuration directive.

resources.locale.default = <DEFAULT_LOCALE>
resources.locale.force = false
resources.locale.registry_key = "Zend_Locale"

The locale should be set to a string like en_US

Zend_Locale specificly sniffs the locale from the environment from a call to setlocale and parsing the results.