# Timezone in watcher

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timezone-in-watcher/387430>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 1, 2026, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timezone-in-watcher/387430 "2026-07-01T10:46:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Aniket\_Pant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Aniket\_Pant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aniket_Pant)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timezone-in-watcher/387430/1 "2026-07-01T10:46:23Z")

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I have created a watcher to send business dashboards to clients . Elasticsearch watcher supports UTC and the requirement is reports should receive at 8 am first day of every month. I forgot about UTC when creating below watcher and morning 8 am i checked why i haven't received the mail then i realised that elastic watcher support UTC. I come to know timezone is there in version 8.18 and upgradation we are not planning as of now. Could you please advise how to provide timezone or any other way i can send reports to client at 8 am first day of every month .

Elastic version : 8.16

`PUT _watcher/watch/030bd58e-f07e-4694-acc6-ff6afd1daad3`  
`{`  
` "trigger": {`  
` "schedule": {`  
` "cron": "0 0 8 1 * ?"`  
` }`  
` },`

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timezone-in-watcher/387430/2 "2026-07-01T10:57:49Z")

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The [docs](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/alerting/watcher/schedule-types#configue_cron_time-zone) indicate that UTC is the default but you can change it.

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**Author:** ![Keith\_Massey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/keith_massey/32/83666_2.png) [@Keith\_Massey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Keith_Massey)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timezone-in-watcher/387430/3 "2026-07-01T13:15:25Z")

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That was only added in [8.18](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/117456) though. I don't think that there are any options for 8.16 other than upgrading (which would be a good idea anyway).

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timezone-in-watcher/387430/4 "2026-07-01T13:40:47Z")

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Ah thanks Keith, I didn't know we'd added any features to Watcher for a while!

Yep 8.16 is unmaintained these days, you need to be on 8.19 at least.