Use Paulo Freitas suggestion instead.
Until Laravel fixes this, you can run a standard database query after the Schema::create have been run.
Schema::create("users", function($table){
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('email', 255);
$table->string('given_name', 100);
$table->string('family_name', 100);
$table->timestamp('joined');
$table->enum('gender', ['male', 'female', 'unisex'])->default('unisex');
$table->string('timezone', 30)->default('UTC');
$table->text('about');
});
DB::statement("ALTER TABLE ".DB::getTablePrefix()."users CHANGE joined joined TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP NOT NULL");
It worked wonders for me.