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Asked: 2026-06-06T23:32:04+00:00

According to this question on how to set the time_zone in mysql and this

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According to this question on how to set the time_zone in mysql and this timezone list, I thougth this should work:

SET time_zone = 'Europe/Madrid';

But this is what sqlBuddy logs:

The following errors were reported:Unknown or incorrect time zone:
‘Europe/Madrid’

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ensure that the time zone information tables have been populated. From mysql:

    The value can be given as a named time zone, such as ‘Europe/Helsinki’, ‘US/Eastern’, or ‘MET’. Named time zones can be used only if the time zone information tables in the mysql database have been created and populated.

    Although personally I prefer storing all dates in UTC. I find it makes reasoning far simpler particularly when daylight savings time is introduced.

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