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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 (/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo on Solaris). If your system does not have a
       zoneinfo database, you can use the downloadable package described in Section 9.7, "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 path name 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

       After running mysql_tzinfo_to_sql, it is best to restart the server so that it does not continue to
       use any previously cached time zone data.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.

       This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it only under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the
       License.

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       without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
       General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the program; if not,
       write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301
       USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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
       Sun Microsystems, Inc. (http://www.mysql.com/).



MySQL 5.0                                        05/07/2009                             MYSQL_TZINFO_TO_S(1)