From a0f733615c6513bb5ef0d08b1e05b799e2cf63be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Isaac Connor <isaac@zoneminder.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:26:34 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] allow empty string as a default value

---
 scripts/ZoneMinder/lib/ZoneMinder/Object.pm | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/ZoneMinder/lib/ZoneMinder/Object.pm b/scripts/ZoneMinder/lib/ZoneMinder/Object.pm
index b262b6f85..0f8bcb8ad 100644
--- a/scripts/ZoneMinder/lib/ZoneMinder/Object.pm
+++ b/scripts/ZoneMinder/lib/ZoneMinder/Object.pm
@@ -395,8 +395,8 @@ sub set {
 		if ( ( ! exists $$self{$field} ) or (!defined $$self{$field}) or ( $$self{$field} eq '' ) ) {
 			$log->debug("Setting default ($field) (".def_or_undef($$self{$field}).') ('.def_or_undef($defaults{$field}).') ') if $debug;
 			if ( defined $defaults{$field} ) {
-				if ( $defaults{$field} eq 'NOW()' ) {
-					$$self{$field} = 'NOW()';
+				if ( $defaults{$field} eq '' or $defaults{$field} eq 'NOW()' ) {
+					$$self{$field} = $defaults{$field};
 				} else {
 					$$self{$field} = eval($defaults{$field});
 					$log->error( "Eval error of object default $field default ($defaults{$field}) Reason: " . $@ ) if $@;