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Missing time zones in WAMP MySQL

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If you try to run for example SET time_zone = 'Europe/Oslo' on the default MySQL database that comes with WAMP you might get an error saying the time zone doesn't exist.

Apparently this is because the time_zone tables for some reason are empty.

How to fix

  1. Go to dev.mysql.com/downloads/timezones.html
  2. Download the POSIX standard Time zone description tables, version 2011n zip archive
  3. Extract the files and overwrite the ones in C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.6.17\data\mysql, or whatever your equivalent path would be
  4. Restart MySQL

Setting the time zone should now work 🙂