NAME

       mysql_tzinfo_to_sql - load the time zone tables

SYNOPSIS

       mysql_tzinfo_to_sql arguments

DESCRIPTION

       The mysql_tzinfo_to_sql program loads the time zone tables in the mysql database. It is used on systems
       that have a zoneinfo database (the set of files describing time zones). Examples of such systems are
       Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and OS X. One likely location for these files is the /usr/share/zoneinfo
       directory (/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo on Solaris). If your system does not have a zoneinfo database, you can
       use the downloadable package described in Section 10.6, “MySQL Server Time Zone Support”.

       mysql_tzinfo_to_sql can be invoked several ways:

           shell> mysql_tzinfo_to_sql tz_dir
           shell> mysql_tzinfo_to_sql tz_file tz_name
           shell> mysql_tzinfo_to_sql --leap tz_file

       For the first invocation syntax, pass the zoneinfo directory path name to mysql_tzinfo_to_sql and send
       the output into the mysql program. For example:

           shell> mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -u root mysql

       mysql_tzinfo_to_sql reads your system's time zone files and generates SQL statements from them.  mysql
       processes those statements to load the time zone tables.

       The second syntax causes mysql_tzinfo_to_sql to load a single time zone file tz_file that corresponds to
       a time zone name tz_name:

           shell> mysql_tzinfo_to_sql tz_file tz_name | mysql -u root mysql

       If your time zone needs to account for leap seconds, invoke mysql_tzinfo_to_sql using the third syntax,
       which initializes the leap second information.  tz_file is the name of your time zone file:

           shell> mysql_tzinfo_to_sql --leap tz_file | mysql -u root mysql

       After running mysql_tzinfo_to_sql, it is best to restart the server so that it does not continue to use
       any previously cached time zone data.

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SEE ALSO

       For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which may already be installed locally
       and which is also available online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.

AUTHOR

       Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/).