Which time zone should a shared dashboard use for daily totals?

dsanders

A distributed team is comparing daily activity in a shared dashboard. Events have UTC timestamps, but some viewers expect their own local day and others need one consistent reporting day. Around midnight, the same event can fall on different dates for different viewers.

Would you use a workspace time zone, a viewer preference, or a switch between the two? How should exports and scheduled reports behave? I would like a design that keeps comparisons consistent while still helping people investigate events in their local context.

dperry

For shared business totals, I would choose a documented workspace reporting time zone and display it beside the date range. Local time can be an optional investigation view. Exports should include the reporting zone and explicit offsets for event timestamps. Also test daylight-saving boundaries so a daily bucket is defined by calendar dates in that zone.