As already pointed out in this topic, dgraph stores 0 times as empty strings and return them as empty string at query time. This makes it impossible to unmarshal the response (Golang) if a 0 date is present, even using pointers. Dgraph should either drop completely the empty date from the response…

Datetime type storing empty string for “0001-01-01T00:00:00Z”

pawan (Pawan Rawal) November 9, 2020, 6:50am 2

I have marked this issue as accepted and we’ll get this behavior fixed for you.

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