# What decides Kibana Visualization time\_zone?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-decides-kibana-visualization-time-zone/391075>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 20, 2026, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-decides-kibana-visualization-time-zone/391075 "2026-10-20T09:22:56Z")\
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My Kibana Dashboard Table Visualization defaults the `date_histogram.time_zone` to `UTC`, and I'm not sure what decides this. I need it to be `UTC+2` or `Europe/Oslo`.

> **Json Request Example**
>
> ```auto
> "date_histogram": {
> "field": "@timestamp",
> "fixed_interval": "1d",
> "time_zone": "UTC",
> "extended_bounds": {
> "min": 1791842400000,
> "max": 1792485552554
> }
> }
> 
> ```

My other spaces that uses ECS defaults everything to `Europe/Oslo`, but my OTel space defaults to UTC. All spaces have `Europe/Oslo` as Time zone space setting.

My OTel space uses the `*-generic.otel-*` indices if that is relevant.

Any thoughts on how to _default/set_ my Dashboard Visualizations in my OTel space to UTC+2 ?