Comments on: Zend_Db: Setting MySQL's timezone per connection

By: Zend_Db timezone definition after connection to MySQL | whyte624 – Andrey S – Personal site

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:04:46 +0000

[…] found other solution in this blog. So in other words if you using mysqli adapter for Zend_Db, we can set timezone in configuration […]

By: Andrey

Andrey — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:42:27 +0000

Thanks, Dominic!
Very interesting!

By: John D

John D — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:57:10 +0000

Is there a PostgreSQL equivalent of this?

By: Lachlan

Lachlan — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:43:33 +0000

Won't this break for timezones with non-whole numbers? Try for instance Pacific/Chatham. It should be +10.45. I used this: $minutes = $timezone->getOffset(new DateTime('NOW')) / 60; $offset = sprintf("SET time_zone = '%d:%2d'", $minutes / 60, $minutes % 60);

By: marcus

marcus — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:53:40 +0000

Dominik, indeed recent versions of Zend Framework support this out of the box. That wasn't the case two years ago.

By: Dominik

Dominik — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:30:16 +0000

Hi Marcus

I ran into the very same problem and was lucky to find your howto on this topic. While reading documentations on the MySQL and ZF websites I found out that it is possible to pass driver options which allow the setting of the timezone. A simple entry like

database.params.driver_options.MYSQLI_INIT_COMMAND = "set time_zone = '+2:00'"

in the config will handle the setting of the timezone as wished. This works with the current ZF version 1.10.8.

Thanks and Greetings
Dominik