# Clean way of setting timezone in alerts?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clean-way-of-setting-timezone-in-alerts/164838>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [January 18, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clean-way-of-setting-timezone-in-alerts/164838 "2019-01-18T16:57:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![jusmitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@jusmitch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jusmitch)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clean-way-of-setting-timezone-in-alerts/164838/1 "2019-01-18T16:57:14Z")

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Is there a clean way of setting a timezone for alerts? Right now everything I've created with watcher is getting alerted in UTC, which isn't very useful. It seems to be ignoring the timezone that is set in the Kibana advanced settings.

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:** [February 15, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clean-way-of-setting-timezone-in-alerts/164838/2 "2019-02-15T16:57:18Z")

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