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

In case of Mysql8 and want to set EDT timezone 'America/New_York' then follow the below steps:

1. Go to the /etc/my.cnf
2. Add this under [mysqld] default-time-zone='America/New_York'
3. systemctl restart mysqld

If you face the issue realted fatal error like this:

Fatal error: Illegal or unknown default time zone

Then do the following steps:

1. first remove the entry from /etc/my.cnf file for default-time-zone='America/New_York'

2. Go to shell(exit from mysql) and run the command

   $ mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -u root -p mysql
   

3. Add the line again

4. Restart mysql