my sql doesnt support now()
timestamp is supposed to work ok
You can use a TIMESTAMP column (works almost like DATETIME)..."The exception is that you can specify CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as the default for a TIMESTAMPcolumn."That works for me
...also
A Trigger was mentioned by a previous post and was the only solution that I could find.
Here is what I ended up with in a table called "event" and two fields called statdate and
lastdate. It seems to work pretty well.
CREATE TRIGGER event_insert BEFORE INSERT ON `event`
FOR EACH ROW SET NEW.startdate = NOW(), NEW.lastdate = NOW();