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["Nick L." <nleskiw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is the timezone set in your Graphite configuration file? (local-settings.py I think, maybe carbon.conf.) 

Dmitry Molchanov <question193066@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>New question #193066 on Graphite:
>https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/193066
>
>Hello!
>We have a couple of metrics that store daily calculated values. 
>At first look the problem looks like an  problem of visualisation as we can see here (http://molchanov.pp.ru/savt.png).
>But further investigation shown that data sent to carbon-cache with correct local time (e.g. 12:00PM converted to unix timestamp).
>Timestamp is aligned to beginning of time interval of retention (00:00 GMT) when it is stored to database
>(whisper.py:   myInterval = timestamp - (timestamp % archive['secondsPerPoint']) )
>Offset for our TZ (Europe/Moscow) is added when it is displayed, so data point is displayed at 04:00 instead of 12:00PM or 12:00AM at least.
>This makes a couple of problems with reading graphs and data manipulation. How should we handle it?
>
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