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MYSQL_TZINFO_TO_S(1)                        MySQL Database System                       MYSQL_TZINFO_TO_S(1)



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, Sun Solaris, and Mac OS X. One likely location for these files is the
       /usr/share/zoneinfo directory. If your system does not have a zoneinfo database, you can use the
       downloadable package described in Section 8.8, "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 pathname 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

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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
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MySQL 5.0                                        07/04/2007                             MYSQL_TZINFO_TO_S(1)