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MYSQL Timezone support

We are having a shared hosting plan and they are saying that do provide MYSQL Timezone support in a shared hosting plan. I can create timezone related tables in our database and populate them with ...
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Timezones in Oracle 10

I have an application that stores its timestamps in Oracle using UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). Another application reads these timestamps from the database, but there is no convenient way to ...
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How to Handle TimeZone Properly in SQL SERVER?

I have some issue which needed to be fixed quickly. My local development server is in middle east. But my production server is in UK. Now, I need to show the date to user to thier timezone. For ...
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How to get SQL of single time zone

Trying to get the SQL for a single time zone results in an error message: $ mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo America/Sao_Paulo mysql_tzinfo_to_sql: Error reading file '/usr/share/zoneinfo' ...
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“AT TIME ZONE” with zone name PostgreSQL bug?

I was answering this stackoverflow question and found strange result: select * from pg_timezone_names where name = 'Europe/Berlin' ; name | abbrev | utc_offset | is_dst ...
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Why/how did the behavior of extract(epoch…) from “timestamp without time zone” fields change between PostgreSQL 8.4 and 9.2?

Context: We currently run PostgreSQL 8.4 in production, and are testing 9.2 internally for a future upgrade. Some issues have emerged regarding dates. The servers that run 8.4 versus 9.2 are ...
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How can I get the correct offset between UTC and local times for a date that is before or after DST?

I currently use the following to get a local datetime from a UTC datetime: SET @offset = DateDiff(minute, GetUTCDate(), GetDate()) SET @localDateTime = DateAdd(minute, @offset, @utcDateTime) My ...
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How can I change the timezone in MySQL?

In a MySQL DB, I have two varchar fields. One is for date and one is for time. I need to change the time from CST to GMT. In MySQL how do we convert the combination of these date and time fields from ...