I'm using CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
in Google Cloud SQL and according to Google, it returns the server's current time.
Currently, with the time that it returns, it looks like the server's at UTC -1 (i.e., in the Atlantic Ocean). This is not very helpful.
How do I change the timezone and have it display the right time (i.e., a time zone of my own choosing) whenever I call CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
?
There is a new way to to change Google cloud SQL time zone
https://stackoverflow.com/a/29758598/4121388
Instructions: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql-flags
- Go to the Google Developers Console.
- Create a new Developers Console project, or open an existing project
by clicking on the project name.
- In the sidebar on the left, click Storage > Cloud SQL to show a list
of Cloud SQL instances for the project.
- Open your instance and click Edit. If you need to create a new
instance, click New instance.
- Scroll down to the MySQL Flags section.
- Choose flags from the drop-down menu and set their values.
- Click Save. You can check your flags under MySQL Flags on the
overview page.
Cloud SQL sets the system time as UTC.
You can set the timezone for an individual session with a statement like:
SET @@session.time_zone='-07:00';
You can use named (and daylight savings aware) timezones such as "US/Pacific" if you first set up the timezone table by running a system command like:
mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -h YOUR_INSTANCE_IP -u root -p mysql