I use this in my.cnf (along with mysqld_multi settings fwiw) and it works
great (mysql version 4.0.X):
[mysqld_safe]
timezone = GMT
It depends on how you start up mysqld.. If you don't use mysqld_safe, the
above wont work for you.
Atle
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Flying Crocodile Inc, Unix Systems Administrator
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Petr Chardin wrote:
> > I've tried putting TZ = GMT and TZ = UTC into the my.cnf file but then
> > mysql won't even start.
>
> These should be set as environment variables, not as configuration
> options. You could also try setting time_zone system variable with
> set @@time_zone=GMT.
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> Petr
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