MySQL mysql_tzinfo_to_sql program

Question

I am using MySQL 5.0.51b on microsoft windows xp. I am trying to load data from zoneinfo files(generated by library downloaded from here) to database tables as described her

Answer 1

None of the 'populate file' methods worked for me with mysql 8.

A lot of answer contains this link: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/timezones.html There's downloadable zip files that contain sql files. Putting it to any directory didn't help. One thing helped me: I issued a "use mysql;" and executed the content of the downloadable sql file as a script.