Douglas Wilson

Thanks @sidorares . I got a basic implementation working. Gotta get all the tests added and some things ironed out.

I have an early WIP on the [compression](https://github.com/mysqljs/mysql/tree/compression) branch. You can enable compression, but it doesn't currently compress the data from client to server, only opting into the compression protocol...

Thank you for your deep analysis. But there is some important information left out here to help us, for example, can you also show what the output this module provides...

I'm referring to the parameters documented at https://github.com/mysqljs/mysql/blob/master/Readme.md#connection-options . The "timezone" option needs to be set to that of your mysql server, for example. The question about dateStrings is because...

The above questions are in order to help us troubleshoot and I suppose make changes to this module to work better, which I assume is the goal for opening this...

Ah, sorry. It was hard to tell, as i was not sure if you were referring to the timezone on this module or on the server. If would probably help...

I'm asking in order to get more information. Getting that other value will help understand what is returned over the protocol before this module does timezone conversion, which is what...

I know you said it would be simple and that is what I did and I got all the result you wanted without any distortion that you are seeing... that...

> Interesting. You tried to replicate and you got it right? That's correct. And to be clear: I believe you are seeing what you claim. So I agree you are...

> but for the timestamp, I do not get the UTC value. Right, because mysql server itself will convert the timestamp column to the server's timezone on retrieval from storage....