This is caused by the low version of mysql, only 5.5 will have this problem, 5.6 will not have this problem.
Triggers can be used instead:
CREATE TABLE `example` ( `id` INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `created` TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, `lastUpdated` DATETIME NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB; DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS `update_example_trigger`; DELIMITER // CREATE TRIGGER `update_example_trigger` BEFORE UPDATE ON `example` FOR EACH ROW SET NEW.`lastUpdated` = NOW() // DELIMITER ;