New user's issue with time settings

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Hi @eyersg

I would explore some topics in this forum on this very matter. Here is a useful one:

UTC to Local Time Zone Issue MySQL Data Source

Hi everyone, I’m running Grafana v7.3.7 (1e261642f4) and I’ve run into a frustrating issue regarding time data. I am working on a project dealing with one MySQL database table which contains a few columns containing time data, all using the datetime data type. All entries into the time data columns are drawn from an external file, in UTC time zone format. I am using only one of these columns in all my queries, titled time_end. Here is an example of one of my queries, which displays a bar graph…

In short, UTC issues can be tricky, but you might want to switch your DB and system to UTC and set the local timezone in your grafana preferences