Unable to insert data into MYSQL due to UTC - mysql

Question

I am trying to use FullCalendar v4 and cannot post data to MySQL. I have narrowed the problem down to $start and $end having UTC on the end and MySQL won't take it even though my datatype is TIMESTAMP. If I manually assign standard datetime data (without UTC) to $start and $end it will post to table. I have the statements commented out in the event.php that work, by overriding the data in the $POST.
My thought is I have something askew in MySQL that is causing the TIMESTAMP datatype to actually be a DATETIME datatype. I have deleted and created the table with SQL Statement shown below.
Running -> MySQL 8.01.5, Windows Server 2016, PHP 7.2.7, using jQuery
...
CREATE TABLE calendarsystem.events (
id int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
title VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL ,
start TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
end TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
resourceId VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL ,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
);
...
The code to add_event.php:
<?php
$title = $_POST['title'];
$start = $_POST['start'];
$end = $_POST['end'];
$resourceId = $_POST['resourceId'];
//$title = 'wtf';
//$start = '2019-03-25 16:00:00';
//$end = '2019-03-25T17:00:00';
//$resourceId = 'b';
try {
require "db_config.php";
} catch(Exception $e) {
exit('Unable to connect to database.');
}
$sql = "INSERT INTO events (title, start, end, resourceId) VALUES (:title, :start, :end, :resourceId )";
$q = $bdd->prepare($sql);
q->execute(array(':title'=>$title,':start'=>$start,':end'=>$end,':resourceId'=>$resourceId));
?>
...
If I open MySQL Workbench and try to add the data with the UTC copied from the output window of chrome I get the following error when applying:
Operation failed: There was an error while applying the SQL script to the database.
Executing:
INSERT INTO calendarsystem.events (start, end, title, resourceId) VALUES ('2019-03-25T14:00:00-05:00', '2019-03-25T15:00:00-05:00', 'xxx', 'b');
ERROR 1292: 1292: Incorrect datetime value: '2019-03-25T14:00:00-05:00' for column 'start' at row 1
SQL Statement:
INSERT INTO calendarsystem.events (start, end, title, resourceId) VALUES ('2019-03-25T14:00:00-05:00', '2019-03-25T15:00:00-05:00', 'xxx', 'b')
Sorry the post formatting is crappy

Answer 1

I think MySQL isn't recognizing the 'T' character or the trailing time offset in the string value.
'2019-03-25T15:00:00-05:00'
^ ^^^^^^
One way to fix the problem would be to remove that T character and the offset
'2019-03-25 15:00:00'
^
We expect MySQL to recognize a string in that format.
Alternatively, we could use STR_TO_DATE function with appropriate format model so MySQL can interpret datetime/timestamp values from strings in different formats.
The relevant topic in the MySQL Referenced Manual is here:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/date-and-time-literals.html