---
name: "mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mariadb"
version: "13.0.2-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql"
---

# mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql(1)

load the time zone tables (mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql is now a symlink to mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql)

## NAME

mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql - load the time zone tables (mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql is now a symlink to mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql)

## SYNOPSIS

**mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql** *arguments*

## DESCRIPTION

The **mariadb-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, Solaris, and Mac OS X. One likely location for these files is the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory (/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo on Solaris).

**mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql** can be invoked several ways:

```
shell> mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql tz_dir
shell> mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql tz_file tz_name
shell> mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql --leap tz_file
shell> mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql --skip-write-binlog tz_dir
```

For the first invocation syntax, pass the zoneinfo directory path name to **mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql** and send the output into the **mariadb** program. For example:

```
shell> mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mariadb -u root mysql
```

**mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql** reads your system's time zone files and generates SQL statements from them. **mariadb** processes those statements to load the time zone tables.

The second syntax causes **mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql** to load a single time zone file *tz\_file* that corresponds to a time zone name *tz\_name*:

```
shell> mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql tz_file tz_name | mariadb -u root mysql
```

If your time zone needs to account for leap seconds, invoke **mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql** using the third syntax, which initializes the leap second information. *tz\_file* is the name of your time zone file:

```
shell> mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql --leap tz_file | mariadb -u root mysql
```

Using the --skip-write-binlog option prevents writing of changes to the binary log or to other Galera cluster members. This can be used with any form of running **mariadb-tzinfo-to-sql**.

After running **mariadb-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, 2008-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2010-2025 MariaDB Foundation

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.

This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; 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 02110-1335 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

## SEE ALSO

For more information, please refer to the MariaDB Documentation, available online at https://mariadb.com/docs/

## AUTHOR

MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/).