# Charts with stictly defined Timezone

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/charts-with-stictly-defined-timezone/187287
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 25, 2019, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/charts-with-stictly-defined-timezone/187287 "2019-06-25T09:32:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Serghey\_Rodin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/serghey_rodin/32/48265_2.png) [@Serghey\_Rodin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Serghey_Rodin)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2019, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/charts-with-stictly-defined-timezone/187287/1 "2019-06-25T09:32:38Z")

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I'd like to make a bar chart that will display monthly stats without offsetting timestamp with users time zone.

The problem is that for example record 2019-02-01T00:00:00.000Z for Kibana user in EST timezone will be displayed incorrectly as 31 January.

Is there a way to strictly define timezone and disregard user browser settings?  
Thanks

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### Author: ![nickpeihl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nickpeihl/32/112622_2.png) [@nickpeihl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nickpeihl)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/charts-with-stictly-defined-timezone/187287/2 "2019-06-25T21:09:05Z")

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You can set the timezone in Kibana's Advanced Settings. Look for `dateFormat:tz`. [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/advanced-options.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/advanced-options.html)

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### Author: ![Serghey\_Rodin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/serghey_rodin/32/48265_2.png) [@Serghey\_Rodin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Serghey_Rodin)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2019, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/charts-with-stictly-defined-timezone/187287/3 "2019-06-26T09:59:18Z")

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Thanks @nickpeihl  
Default tImezone is good for everything but one chart that displays monthly stats. It is confusing because of timezone offset.

I want to create a chart that will be displayed identically for all users regardless of their timezone. Everything else is good with default browser settings.

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### Author: ![nickpeihl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nickpeihl/32/112622_2.png) [@nickpeihl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nickpeihl)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2019, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/charts-with-stictly-defined-timezone/187287/4 "2019-06-26T16:15:18Z")

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You want to set the timezone on a single visualization and use the browser timezone for other visualizations? I don't think this is currently possible. Would you mind [submitting a feature request](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new/choose) for this?

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### Author: ![Serghey\_Rodin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/serghey_rodin/32/48265_2.png) [@Serghey\_Rodin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Serghey_Rodin)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/charts-with-stictly-defined-timezone/187287/5 "2019-06-28T14:46:42Z")

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Yes and I was wondering if this is possible to achieve from advances chart settings right now.  
I'm going to submit a feature request. Thanks!

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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 26, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/charts-with-stictly-defined-timezone/187287/6 "2019-07-26T14:46:43Z")

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