# All @timestamp are in UCT time

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-timestamp-are-in-uct-time/220449
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 21, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-timestamp-are-in-uct-time/220449 "2020-02-21T20:50:50Z")
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### Author: ![jwalls](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jwalls](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jwalls)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-timestamp-are-in-uct-time/220449/1 "2020-02-21T20:50:50Z")

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I have set in "advanced settings" under kibana to use US/Central time, yet all my timestamp fields are still showing UCT time. Does this require a restart of Kibana to go in effect or does it need to be changed at the ES level as well?

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### Author: ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-timestamp-are-in-uct-time/220449/2 "2020-02-21T20:56:49Z")

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it is just reload of page.

but you have to explain in little more.

all timestamp gets save in UTC. and kibana will use browser timezone and do + or - of some hour accordingly.

i.e your US/Cenetral - 10:00am =\> 16:00 UTC

and when Kibana brings that record back it will remove -6 from it.

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### Author: ![jwalls](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jwalls](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jwalls)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-timestamp-are-in-uct-time/220449/3 "2020-02-21T22:56:58Z")

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I have learned that docker logs, the type of logs I am indexing, cannot be set in anything other than UTC, so it's not an ELK issue but a docker issue

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-timestamp-are-in-uct-time/220449/4 "2020-03-20T23:00:27Z")

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