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Time Zone Name in MySQL: How to Detect the Current One

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The time zone name of the MySQL server you are connected to takes one line to read. MySQL developers and DBAs regularly need the time zone of the session they are connected to. The MySQL documentation and search engines give many ways to do it. In this post, I show the simple method I use.

The query SELECT @@system_time_zone; with its result, a single row with the column @@system_time_zone and the value India Standard Time

The Query

Run the following script against your MySQL server:

SELECT @@system_time_zone;

The Result

It returns a result set with the name of your time zone. I am in India, and my machine’s time zone is India Standard Time. So the result contains the same.

MySQL query editor with the query SELECT @@system_time_zone; and a result grid showing India Standard Time

Your Turn

Let me know if you use another method to retrieve the time zone of the server where MySQL is installed.

Quick reference card: MySQL time zone name

A time zone is not a setting you guess, it is one line you can read.

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