# How can I change the timezone on Kibana?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-change-the-timezone-on-kibana/348172
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 28, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-change-the-timezone-on-kibana/348172 "2023-11-28T18:12:32Z")
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### Author: ![SamuelSMendes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/samuelsmendes/32/104246_2.png) [@SamuelSMendes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SamuelSMendes)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-change-the-timezone-on-kibana/348172/1 "2023-11-28T18:12:32Z")

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I've noticed that my Kibana has a 3hours difference with my actual time. I've been looking into similar cases but so far changing the timezone in the Advanced Settings hasn't worked yet. What other ways could I try to achieve this?

 ![Captura de Tela (1974)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/0/80d3d9ae4fbd8393165d200964b271bad6785e63.png)

I've extracted the Kibana current time by this query by the way:

```auto
date
| formatdate "MM/DD/YYYY HH:mm:ss"
| markdown "current time: " {context}
| render

```

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### Author: ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-change-the-timezone-on-kibana/348172/2 "2023-11-28T18:55:34Z")

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Is this in Canvas?

The main issue here is that all date fields in Elasticsearch are stored in UTC and Kibana will convert the UTC time to the timezone configured in Advanced settings, per default it will use the Browser timezone, which will inherit the timezone from the OS.

But this conversion does not happen in every place in Kibana and if I'm not wrong, Canvas is one of the places where the data will always appear in UTC, no matter what you do.

There was an old [issue](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/23075) about this, but was closed without a solution.

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### Author: ![SamuelSMendes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/samuelsmendes/32/104246_2.png) [@SamuelSMendes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SamuelSMendes)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2023, 7:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-change-the-timezone-on-kibana/348172/3 "2023-11-28T19:08:18Z")

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Thank you for the fast reply. It is indeed in the canvas. While in charts I did a workaround with the "interval" like this:

```auto
CAST(create_time as DATETIME) - INTERVAL 3 Hours

```

I was wondering if there is a way to do something similar to the timefilter. As I don't know if there is a way to set into SQL there the idea just went away.

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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 26, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-i-change-the-timezone-on-kibana/348172/5 "2023-12-26T21:04:39Z")

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