mysql_tzinfo_to_sql

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/.

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MySQL 5.0			  07/04/2007		 MYSQL_TZINFO_TO_S(1)