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Digital Ocean Managed Databases Set Timezone to UTC -05:00 Permanently

Posted on June 17, 2020

I’ve searched the docs and forums regarding the forementioned subject, but I can’t seem to find a way to set the global timezone for my managed database to UTC -05:00. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Matt Cowley

June 18, 2020

Hey @GSDynamicsDO,

Unfortunately at this time, it seems that you can’t set this yourself rather annoyingly.

However, if you create a support ticket, our teams can manually set it for you :) Please note that changing the timezone will affect the whole cluster.

You can reach out to our support team via https://www.digitalocean.com/support/

Hope that helps! - Matt.

alexdo

November 30, 2022

Hello @rajkishore

You can check this question that was previously asked in our community:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/can-i-change-timezone-in-the-do-managed-mysql-database

The easiest way to do this now is via the DigitalOcean API.

First, use a GET request to get a list of your databases, and take the ID of the database you’re looking to change the settings for.

Then, use this API call: https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/api-reference/#operation/databases_patch_config

Using your auth token and the body:

{"config": { "default_time_zone": "Europe/London" }} <-- Change the timezone as you wish.

This should set the timezone for your server 👍

Regards

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