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

Ancient question with one more suggestion:

If you've recently changed the timezone of the OS, e.g. via:

unlink /etc/localtime
ln -s /etc/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime

... MySQL (or MariaDB) will not notice until you restart the db service:

service mysqld restart

(or)

service mariadb restart