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

You can specify the server's default timezone when you start it, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/server-options.html and specifically the --default-time-zone=timezone option. You can check the global and session time zones with

SELECT @@global.time_zone, @@session.time_zone;

set either or both with the SET statement, &c; see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/time-zone-support.html for many more details.