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

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