Date indexes as yesterday

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Hey Everyone,
I am trying to index some statistics into my self-hosted elastic stack. I am using the python API to index the document which has a very simple mapping that is dynamically mapped from a dictionary in python. An example is below

data = {
"Date": "01/05/2022"
"data1": 7
"data2": 5
"data3": [1,2,3]
}

I have run this command to set Elastic to look for the same date mapping when indexing:

PUT index1
{
  "mappings": {
    "dynamic_date_formats": ["MM/dd/yyyy"]
  }
}

however, when I index the example document from above, the date field is input as the date previous at 19:00 so it would be:
Jan 4, 2022 @ 19:00:00.000

Is there a way to make sure the date is input correctly?
I am using Elastic V7.16

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The problem looks related to timezone.

In Elasticsearch datetime is stored as UTC. And in Kibana it is shown according to the timezone of your browser by default.

I suppose you have to add timezone data when indexing to deal with the problem.

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that seemed to do the trick, thanks

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