Temporarily change the display time zone for searches in kibana

Elastic Stack Kibana
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We have kibana setup to display timestamp in local time (+1200/1300). Occasionally we need to send search result to external parties on other time zone. When doing this I like to have the timestamps in UTC -- everyone knows how to convert UTC to their own timezone. Many of us have problem converting between arbitrary timezone. Some tools barf on +1300!

I would like to be able to get the results displayed or exported in UTC for a specific query.

Is this possible without setting up a separate space. The problems with separate space is that we need to duplicate a heap of dashboards : (. I have also looked at changing the time zone in the browser (chrome) but while possible it is a pain in the proverbial.

In security circles it is standard to use UTC when sharing data.

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Seems the ideal solution would be to use Spaces with shared dashboards but that project is still in development you can check a meta issue here.

The other solution you mention is about doing that in the browser. I haven't tried them but seems there are extensions for both chrome and firefox. Aren't they working for you?

If any of this wolk for you I'd suggest to open a feature request at the Kibana repository for better discussion with the dev team.

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