title: How to set MySQL to use GMT in Windows and Linux
body: <p>I'm just trying to get MySQL to store time in GMT...</p>
  
  <p>I've read the documentation here: <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/time-zone-support.html" rel="noreferrer">http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/time-zone-support.html</a></p>
  
  <p>It says to set: default-time-zone='timezone'  in an option file.</p>
  
  <p>However, I've googled for several different terms and cannot find possible values "timezone" is supposed to be.  I also don't know where in my.ini (and in Linux, my.cnf) to put this directive.  Below [msyqld] ?</p>