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

Edit the following:

nano /etc/mysql/conf.d/mysql.cnf && systemctl restart mysql ; systemctl status mysql

MySQL.cnf:

[mysql]
default_time_zone=America/Vancouver

See here for current Time Zone formats --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones