# Kibana 3 - use UTC everywhere

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-use-utc-everywhere/29796
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [September 22, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-use-utc-everywhere/29796 "2015-09-22T16:43:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Praveen\_Shilavantar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/praveen_shilavantar/32/1619_2.png) [@Praveen\_Shilavantar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Praveen_Shilavantar)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-use-utc-everywhere/29796/1 "2015-09-22T16:43:29Z")

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Kibana is converting times into UTC before sending them to ES.

Here is the custom date range:

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/b/ba3496d0a895e51759c7c134d765a20883971df8.png)

ES query shows: "range": { "TakeoffTime": { "from": 1441541033725, "to": 1441660635743 } }

1441541033725 -\> 2015-09-06 12:03:54

1441660635743 -\> 2015-09-07 21:17:16

So what we can do to force Kibana use UTC across all panels? we don't want to deal with browser/local time at all.

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### Author: ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-use-utc-everywhere/29796/2 "2015-09-22T17:36:22Z")

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> Kibana is converting times into UTC before sending them to ES.

It's Logstash that sends data to ES. But yes, Logstash's date filter normalizes all timestamps to UTC.

> So what we can do to force Kibana use UTC across all panels? we don't want to deal with browser/local time at all.

This was discussed a few days ago:

> [@Is there any options for Kibana not to convert @timestamp from UTC to browser local timezone?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-options-for-kibana-not-to-convert-timestamp-from-utc-to-browser-local-timezone/29368):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Kibana Timezone](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-timezone/29270/2): Is there any options for Kibana not to convert @timestamp from UTC to browser local timezone?

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### Author: ![Praveen\_Shilavantar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/praveen_shilavantar/32/1619_2.png) [@Praveen\_Shilavantar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Praveen_Shilavantar)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-use-utc-everywhere/29796/3 "2015-09-22T17:47:11Z")

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We are not using Logstash. When Kibana sends a request like below, it converts selected date into UTC. We are already storing dates in UTC in ES and we want to use all dates in Kibana as UTC.

curl -XGET '[http://pse-dev-noc02.mascorp.com:9201/flight\_outages-](http://pse-dev-noc02.mascorp.com:9201/flight_outages-)_/\_search?pretty' -d '{  
"facets": {  
"terms": {  
"terms": {  
"field": "operator",  
"size": 10,  
"order": "count",  
"exclude": []  
},  
"facet\_filter": {  
"fquery": {  
"query": {  
"filtered": {  
"query": {  
"bool": {  
"should": [  
{  
"query\_string": {  
"query": "_"  
}  
}  
]  
}  
},  
"filter": {  
"bool": {  
"must": [  
{  
"range": {  
"TakeoffTime": {  
"from": 1441541033725,  
"to": 1441660635743  
}  
}  
}  
]  
}  
}  
}  
}  
}  
}  
}  
},  
"size": 0  
}'

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### Author: ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-use-utc-everywhere/29796/4 "2015-09-22T17:53:35Z")

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> We are not using Logstash. When Kibana sends a request like below, it converts selected date into UTC.

Right, I didn't get that you were talking about the requests and not the data itself. Anyway, the issue reference I gave still applies.

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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 6, 2017, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-use-utc-everywhere/29796/5 "2017-07-06T14:12:45Z")

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