# New user having timezone issues **URL:** \ **Category:** Dashboards\ **Tags:** timestamp\ **Created:** [June 9, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/new-user-having-timezone-issues/66903 "2022-06-09T02:56:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sfrjoshpro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@sfrjoshpro](https://community.grafana.com/u/sfrjoshpro)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/new-user-having-timezone-issues/66903/1 "2022-06-09T02:56:16Z")
GRAFANA FORUM’S 3 BEST PRACTICES: - What Grafana version and what operating system are you using? (V8.5.4) - **What** are you trying to achieve? (To make a time series panel) - **How** are you trying to achieve it? (Creating new panel Set From to logs Time colum to timestamp Select to colum rwwc - What happened? Shows my data but with the wrong time about 4 hours earlier then my database time - What did you **expect** to happen? For my time stamp in my mysql would be same as on grafana - Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with? - Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us **exactly** what they were. - Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL? Not sure when there a -4 on the timestamp. And even if I change it here ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/3X/f/6/f6fecbc052e1a090508c3b6a6141e895711b17ed.jpeg) My life feed never right. I’m at a lost ---
**Author:** ![anon70503803](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@anon70503803](https://community.grafana.com/u/anon70503803)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/new-user-having-timezone-issues/66903/2 "2022-06-30T23:23:17Z")
welcome to the :grafana: forum, @sfrjoshpro have you searched this forum for similar topics? These timezone issues are a common issue and there are a lot of existing resources