Error loading string data

[dowglaz]

I have the current data in the table creation:

amount varchar(255) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL

and in the fixture file:

amount: "000000601"

When it loads the fixtures, for some unknown reason, it converts it to: 0000-06-01 00:00:00 -0659 LMT.

When I remove the quotes in the fixture file:

amount: 000000601

it converts correctly to a varchar.

However, I would like to keep being explicit about the data type by using quotes.