# Time difference between dashboard and devTools (ElasticSearch)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-difference-between-dashboard-and-devtools-elasticsearch/330236>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** dashboard\
**Created:** [April 18, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-difference-between-dashboard-and-devtools-elasticsearch/330236 "2023-04-18T15:56:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![FTOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/977dab/32.png) [@FTOR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FTOR)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-difference-between-dashboard-and-devtools-elasticsearch/330236/1 "2023-04-18T15:56:48Z")

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Hello,  
I have a time difference of 2 hours between Elasticsearch and kibana's dashboard.  
For example, the dashboard shows this date as follow, but the real value is 2023-04-18 13:53:00.890

![date](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/b/ebfecfd0de4046d84ddfd7d534d5dacc4b70b73d.png)

I changed the Time Zone on Stack Management/ Advanced Setting. But I get the same thing

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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:** [April 18, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-difference-between-dashboard-and-devtools-elasticsearch/330236/2 "2023-04-18T16:01:11Z")

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Dev Tools will always show value of the fields and every date field in Elasticsearch is stored in UTC.

Kibana discover, visualizations, dashboars etc will always convert from UTC to the Time Zone configured in the settings, which I would recommend to not change unless needed.

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**Author:** ![FTOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/977dab/32.png) [@FTOR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FTOR)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-difference-between-dashboard-and-devtools-elasticsearch/330236/3 "2023-04-18T16:14:29Z")

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Thank you ! I put UTC as Time Zone and it works

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**Author:** ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2023, 5:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-difference-between-dashboard-and-devtools-elasticsearch/330236/4 "2023-04-18T17:02:54Z")

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and if you ever use sql to pull that date field it will be as is. not converted back to your timezone.

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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:** [May 16, 2023, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-difference-between-dashboard-and-devtools-elasticsearch/330236/5 "2023-05-16T17:03:18Z")

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