Its a specific issue with Windows systems doesn’t come usually on linux servers. Specially systems that use XAMPP for running php and maria db or mysql.

There is an easy fix for it, you just need to download this zip: timezone_2018e_posix

After downloading extract the contents of the zip file, this contains mysql time zone tables.

Press Control/Command + A then Control/Command + C to copy all files.

then go to the directory XAMPP is installed.

Open mysql folder then data folder then mysql folder and press Control/Command + V to paste the table files copied in previous step.

Restart mysql server.

Voila! Its fixed!

Happy coding!

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