How do I get the current time zone of MySQL?

Question

Anyone knows if there is such a function in MySQL?

UPDATE

This doesn't output any valid info:

mysql> SELECT @@global.time_zone, @@session.time_zone;
+--------------------+---------------------+
| @@global.time_zone | @@session.time_zone |
+--------------------+---------------------+
| SYSTEM             | SYSTEM              |
+--------------------+---------------------+

Or maybe MySQL itself can't know exactly the time_zone used,that's fine, we can involve PHP here, as long as I can get valid info not like SYSTEM...

Answer 1

The command mention in the description returns "SYSTEM" which indicated it takes the timezone of the server. Which is not useful for our query.

Following query will help to understand the timezone

SELECT TIMEDIFF(NOW(), UTC_TIMESTAMP) as GMT_TIME_DIFF;

Above query will give you the time interval with respect to Coordinated Universal Time(UTC). So you can easily analyze the timezone. if the database time zone is IST the output will be 5:30

UTC_TIMESTAMP

In MySQL, the UTC_TIMESTAMP returns the current UTC date and time as a value in 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS' or YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.uuuuuu format depending on the usage of the function i.e. in a string or numeric context.

NOW()

NOW() function. MySQL NOW() returns the value of current date and time in 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS' format or YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.uuuuuu format depending on the context (numeric or string) of the function. CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(), LOCALTIME, LOCALTIME(), LOCALTIMESTAMP, LOCALTIMESTAMP() are synonyms of NOW().

Answer 2

The query below returns the timezone of the current session.

select timediff(now(),convert_tz(now(),@@session.time_zone,'+00:00'));

Answer 3

As Jakub Vrána (The creator or Adminer and NotORM) mentions in the comments, to select the current timezone offset in TIME use:

SELECT TIMEDIFF(NOW(), UTC_TIMESTAMP);

It will return: 02:00:00 if your timezone is +2:00 for that date

I made a cheatsheet here: Should MySQL have its timezone set to UTC?

Answer 4

My PHP framework uses

SET LOCAL time_zone='Whatever'

on after connect, where 'Whatever' == date_default_timezone_get()

Not my solution, but this ensures SYSTEM timezone of MySQL server is always the same as PHP's one

So, yes, PHP is strongly envolved and can affect it

Answer 5

To get the current time according to your timezone, you can use the following (in my case its '+5:30')

select DATE_FORMAT(convert_tz(now(),@@session.time_zone,'+05:30') ,'%Y-%m-%d')

Answer 6

You just need to restart mysqld after altering timezone of System..

The Global time zone of MySQL takes timezone of System. When you change any such attribute of system, you just need a restart of Mysqld.