php - How to get days,hours,minutes,seconds left for an event with different timezone through mysql query

My server has a timezone of US .Need to generate the JSON response from PHP for IST timings showing the days,hours,minutes,seconds left for some event. I know it can be done using the PHP . I want to know if there is anyway to if I can get the same via mysql query like

I have an even in a table

EVENT - Diwali
event_date - 3 November 2013

and today is 22nd and 2:30 IST time.
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If I make a query like below

select `events`, event_date from events_table where DAY(STR_TO_DATE(event_date, '%y-%m-%d')) >DAY(CURDATE())
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how can get the days,hours,minutes with IST timezone? Is this is achievable through query ?

Solution

SELECT CONVERT_TZ(NOW(),@@session.time_zone, '+05:30');
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