How do I set the time zone of MySQL?

Question

On one server, when I run:

mysql> select now();
+---------------------+
| now()               |
+---------------------+
| 2009-05-30 16:54:29 |
+---------         


        

Answer 1

For anyone still having this issue:

value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/dbname?serverTimezone=UTC"

Worked for me. Just append ?serverTimezone=UTC at the end.