> You say I should be able to mysqldump a table with TIMESTAMP data from
> a database residing in NY, move the dump file to a different time zone,
> load it into the mysql db in that other time zone, and have the
> TIMESTAMP data still be in US/New York time? I have been banging my

I actually had meant just to store the text file itself (as a text file) to
a remote location, then you can restore it back to the main server if
needed.  Since it won't be loaded into a database in a different timezone,
there wouldn't be any issues.

> head for hours now, trying adding SET TIME_ZONE='US/Easterm' and
> various tricks, nothing works. Here's an example, maybe someone can see
> where I am going wrong:

What if you try something like this:

SET TIME_ZONE='-05:00';

H


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