time_zone

Description

time_zone specifies the time zone for the current tenant session. You can set the value to an offset in the '+08:00' format or a region in the Asia/Shanghai format.

Privilege requirements

• Query variables

  • Global level

    The sys tenant and all user tenants can execute the SHOW VARIABLES statement or query the SYS.TENANT_VIRTUAL_GLOBAL_VARIABLE view (Oracle mode) or the information_schema.GLOBAL_VARIABLES view (MySQL mode) to obtain the value of a global system variable.

  • Session level

    The sys tenant and all user tenants can execute the SHOW VARIABLES statement or query the SYS.TENANT_VIRTUAL_SESSION_VARIABLE view (Oracle mode) or the information_schema.SESSION_VARIABLES view (MySQL mode) to obtain the value of a session system variable.

• Modify variables

  • Global level

    • The sys tenant can directly modify the value of a global system variable.

    • A MySQL user tenant must have the SUPER or ALTER SYSTEM privilege to modify the value of a global system variable.

    • An Oracle user tenant must have the ALTER SYSTEM privilege to modify the value of a global system variable.

  • Session level

    The sys tenant and all user tenants can directly modify the value of a session system variable.

Attributes

Examples

Set the time zone of the current tenant session to +08:00.

• Session level

  obclient> SET time_zone='+08:00';
  

• Global level

  obclient> SET GLOBAL time_zone='+08:00';