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21629	Provide better pointers to mysql_tzinfo_to_sql for MySQL users	Aymeric Augustin	nobody	"The exception ""ValueError: Database returned an invalid value in QuerySet.dates(). Are time zone definitions and pytz installed?"" is quite hard to diagnose when users omitted to run mysql_tzinfo_to_sql.

Technically it says the right thing (time zone definitions aren't installed) but it's hard to locate the information, as it isn't in the MySQL installation docs nor in the time zone docs. I just spent a few minutes searching it in the docs, and I wrote these docs!

I suggest adding it to the time zone FAQ and to the MySQL installation instructions (at least)."	Cleanup/optimization	closed	Documentation	dev	Normal	fixed			Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0