[ale] MySQL DATETIME

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)]

On 05/30/2014 09:23 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> This depends on how the "started" field is declared.  If it's a
> TIMESTAMP then MySQL autoconverts any input to UTC as it stores to disk
> and then feeds it back out according to the local TZ.  A DATETIME field
> does not perform an autoconversion.

This would be the best way.  I can then run queries via the mysql client 
using the TZ environment variable.

Do you know if it is possible, and how, I can do an alter table to 
convert the datetime column to a type of timestamp?
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