While creating migrations, you can use timestamp() column type with option
useCurrent() and useCurrentOnUpdate(), it will set CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as default value.
$table->timestamp('created_at')->useCurrent();$table->timestamp('updated_at')->useCurrentOnUpdate();
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