MySQL: NOW() giving me zeros

Question

I have a table which I want to record the timestamp of every order at every insertion time. However, I'm getting zero values for the timestamps.

Here's my schema:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS orders(
            order_no VARCHAR(16) NOT NULL,
            volunteer_id VARCHAR(16) NOT NULL,
            date TIMESTAMP DEFAULT NOW(),
            PRIMARY KEY (order_no),
            FOREIGN KEY (volunteer_id) REFERENCES volunteer(id)
            ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE)

Answer 1

"The DEFAULT value clause in a data type specification indicates a default value for a column. With one exception, the default value must be a constant; it cannot be a function or an expression. This means, for example, that you cannot set the default for a date column to be the value of a function such as NOW() or CURRENT_DATE"

Source: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/data-type-defaults.html

You are going to have to name the column in your insert query and pass Now() as value.