diff --git a/src/client/src/tscParseInsert.c b/src/client/src/tscParseInsert.c
index 0fa25020e9c56d8e8c298d138a142da863fbec64..792ecaf9eeeb7e4772e2ffe2725f3a15e59e3ae7 100644
--- a/src/client/src/tscParseInsert.c
+++ b/src/client/src/tscParseInsert.c
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ int tsParseTime(char* value, int32_t valuelen, int64_t* time, char** next, char*
 
   char* pTokenEnd = *next;
   tscGetToken(pTokenEnd, &token, &tokenlen);
-  if (tokenlen == 0) {
+
+  if (tokenlen == 0 && strlen(value) == 0) {
     INVALID_SQL_RET_MSG(error, "missing time stamp");
   }