# Display UTC on Timeseries axis

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-utc-on-timeseries-axis/156534>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 13, 2018, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-utc-on-timeseries-axis/156534 "2018-11-13T19:22:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![jrobinson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@jrobinson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jrobinson)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-utc-on-timeseries-axis/156534/1 "2018-11-13T19:22:54Z")

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I want to display UTC time everywhere. Using Management:Advanced Setttings: dateFormat:tz set to UTC I can get UTC time displayed on the discover page. On my dashboard, for example a timeseries visualization, on the x-axis the time is still displayed as local time. How do I get the x-axis of the timeseries to display time in UTC?

FYI: Hovering over the axis shows UTC time but the printed axis time is localtime. I investigated dateFormat under advanced settings without luck.

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**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 10:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-utc-on-timeseries-axis/156534/2 "2018-11-13T22:53:42Z")

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It sounds like a bug, the chart should respect timezone settings. Can you share which visualization builder you used, and what your Kibana version is? Are you using a date histogram on the x axis?

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**Author:** ![jrobinson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@jrobinson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jrobinson)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 12:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-utc-on-timeseries-axis/156534/3 "2018-11-14T00:00:05Z")

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Jon,

thanks for your response.

Kibana version 6.1.2

Visual Builder, I don’t see a builder version but it is marked as experimental (version should be recent as of the ~ last 6 months, I didn’t install it).

This was a time series visualization.

Data: Metrics Aggregation: count Group By: Everything

Panel options: Time Field: kb\_time (@timestamp didn’t help), interval: auto

Snapshot showing UTC for hover but axis is not respecting UTC.

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/d/5d1d11ee9085388543951d1488d1bd8fdc4781e2.png)

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**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-utc-on-timeseries-axis/156534/4 "2018-11-15T22:51:33Z")

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Ah, it does appear to be a bug - fixed in 6.2.0.

[https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/15512](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/15512). If upgrading isn't an option we could use a different visualization builder like the line chart.

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**Author:** ![jrobinson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@jrobinson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jrobinson)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-utc-on-timeseries-axis/156534/5 "2018-11-16T20:17:33Z")

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Jon, thank you.

I’ll try the upgrade path

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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:** [December 14, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-utc-on-timeseries-axis/156534/6 "2018-12-14T20:17:38Z")

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