For storing the date like ‘0000-00-00’ in a column of MySQL table, we must have to set the SQL mode to ‘allow_invalid_date’. Following example will demonstrate it −
mysql> SET sql_mode = 'allow_invalid_dates'; Query OK, 0 rows affected, 1 warning (0.03 sec) mysql> Create table test_date(date_order date); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.45 sec) mysql> Insert into test_date(date_order) values('0000-00-00'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.04 sec) mysql> Select * from test_date; +------------+ | date_order | +------------+ | 0000-00-00 | +------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)