Card #3486 · Grafana
Timezone and timestamp mismatches in data visualization and exports
Users are experiencing discrepancies between database timestamps, dashboard displays, and CSV exports, often involving unexpected conversions between UTC and local time. These issues lead to incorrect data plotting in graph panels and inconsistent time reporting across different views.
Pain score
0.20/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach1.00distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.89upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.25willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 4 verified quotes
This returns me data with my local time instead of the default Grafana time or dashboard’s time (which is UTC GMT in my case).
Grafana is subtracting 7 hours from all our data because it thinks it is in UTC.
dates inside my csv file doesn’t match with that to grafana graph panel.
When I set the dashboard to Default, or Browser Time, the time is 5 hours behind (CST -5 time)
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