# Can i set the timezone for results returned from search?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-set-the-timezone-for-results-returned-from-search/49934>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 12, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-set-the-timezone-for-results-returned-from-search/49934 "2016-05-12T19:47:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![afaraone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6de8d8/32.png) [@afaraone](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/afaraone)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-set-the-timezone-for-results-returned-from-search/49934/1 "2016-05-12T19:47:01Z")

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I'm beginning to fear the answer is "no".

I'm storing my data as UTC,  
I'm setting the time\_zone param on a date range filter i've applied to my search,  
I want the returned date-type results (only one field, for my purposes) to reflect a timezone of my choice.

sample query:  
{  
"from": "0",  
"size": "1",  
**"time\_zone" : "-04:00",**  
"sort": {  
"date\_added\_utc": {  
"order": "asc"  
}  
},  
"query": {  
"filtered": {  
"filter": {  
"bool": {  
"must": [  
{  
"range": {  
"date\_added\_utc": {  
"gte": "2015-01-01",  
"lte": "2016-03-31",  
"time\_zone": "-04:00"  
}  
}  
}  
]  
}  
}  
}  
}  
}

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-set-the-timezone-for-results-returned-from-search/49934/2 "2017-07-05T22:51:59Z")

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