title: How to set database timezone for a AWS RDS instance
body: <p>We use the latest MySQL server on the AWS RDS instance and we have configured to run it on US-East data center. We are assuming that any new Date() or Time.now() invocation will store the date in the timezone in which the database server is running.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to point my AWS RDS instance running on US-East to point to the PST timezone, so that any persistence of date will store the values in PST instead of EST.
  (i.e. If store an object around 10 AM EST, the db column should reflect 7 AM EST instead).</p>