Question

This works great in PHP

date_default_timezone_set('my/timezone');

$actualDate = date('Y-m-d');

Now when doing queries, I like to do

INSERT INTO articles (title, insert_date) VALUES ('My Title', now())

The problem with this is the now() in the MySQL is different to what it would be had it been calculated in PHP (and therefore against the timezone being set).

Is there a way, say a SQL query, to set the default timezone for MySQL?

Thanks

Answer 1

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/time-zone-support.html

If you have the SUPER privilege, you can set the global server time zone value at runtime with this statement:

mysql> SET GLOBAL time_zone = timezone;

Per-connection time zones. Each client that connects has its own time zone setting, given by the session time_zone variable. Initially, the session variable takes its value from the global time_zone variable, but the client can change its own time zone with this statement:

mysql> SET time_zone = timezone;