Changing the connection timezone in MySQL

Question

My server is running in MDT

So I used following one to convert EST

SET  time_zone = \'-5:00\'

But, how c

Answer 1

Just for the sake of completeness, Mac users can find mysql_tzinfo_to_sql utility in /usr/local/mysql/bin directory.

Hence the complete command will be /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | ./mysql -p -u root mysql

I spent hours to find the utility, the above path may save yours!