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

From MySQL Workbench 8.0 under the server tab, if you go to Status and System variables you can set it from here.