MySQL: setting time_zone in my.cnf options file

Question

In MySQL you can set a session variable called time_zone to change the timezone. This is useful e.g. when looking at timestamps from another country. Here i

Answer 1

For MAMP, I added default_time_zone=-03:00 under [mysqld] in /Applications/MAMP/conf/my.cnf

I would get the following error for Brazil/East, probably because its deprecated(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones):

[ERROR] Fatal error: Illegal or unknown default time zone 'Brazil/East'