Hi,
I'm supporting some applications written on top of MySQL 4/5 and finding that I have quite a few timestamp columns that are populated as "0000-00-00 00:00" from some misbehaving programs. My attempt to format those values into a DateTime object fails since DT will die out when you hit an invalid date. Since altering those programs is something I can't do I was wondering if anyone else had run Into the problem and found a better way to handle it than simple to wrap the call in an eval? Perhaps there could be a flag that would relax the requirement of parsing a bit so that instead of die we could return a NULL or something else agreeable? Thanks! John Napiorkowski
