Inserting timestamp into Cassandra

I have a table created as follows: ``` CREATE TABLE my_table ( date text, id text, time timestamp, value text, PRIMARY KEY (id)); CREATE INDEX recordings_date_ci ON recordings (date); ``` I'm able to simply add a new row to the table using the following Node code: ``` const cassandra = require('cassandra-driver'); const client = new cassandra.Client({ contactPoints: ['localhost'], keyspace: 'my_keyspace'}); const query = 'INSERT INTO my_table (date, id, time, url) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)'; client.execute(query, ['20160901', '0000000000', '2016-09-01 00:00:00+0000', 'random url'], function(err, result) { if (err){ console.log(err); } console.log('Insert row ended:' + result); }); ``` However, I get the following error: 'Error: Expected 8 or 0 byte long for date (24) When I change the timestamp to epoc time: ``` client.execute(query, ['20160901', '0000000000', 1472688000, 'random url'] ``` I get: d OverflowError: normalized days too large to fit in a C int I'm able to insert new rows via cqlsh so I'm probably missing something with the node.js driver. Any idea? Thanks