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**tl;dr:** store timestamps as timezone-aware types, use `DATE` for calendar values, and set your [project timezone](#configure-your-project-timezone) to the zone you report in.
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# Timezone Setup

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**tl;dr:** store timestamps as timezone-aware types, use `DATE` for calendar values, and set your [project timezone](#configure-your-project-timezone) to the zone you report in.
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## Timezone conversion

Lightdash converts the timezones of your data from their **source timezone** to a **report timezone**:

Lightdash converts the timezones of your data from their **source timezone** to a **report timezone**:

- [**Source timezone**](#configure-your-connection) is the timezone of the raw data. It is defined in your warehouse, data types, modelling, and connection settings.
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By default the project timezone is UTC, which means all reports in Lightdash default to showing results in UTC. The project timezone can be [customised per chart or user](#report-timezone-resolution).

## Opt a column out of timezone conversion
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A chart's own timezone setting decides what zone it uses, unless an embed overrides it. The zone it ends up using is its **resolved timezone**, the term used throughout this guide. From highest priority:

1. **A direct embed's** `timezone `**URL parameter** (on iframe or shareable-URL embeds only, see [Embedded dashboards](#embedded-dashboards)). This outranks everything.
2. Otherwise, the chart's timezone setting applies:
- **Project timezone** (the default): the project's timezone, for every viewer.
- **User timezone**: the viewer's profile timezone, or the project timezone if they haven't set one.
- **A specific timezone**: that exact zone, the same for everyone.

1. **A direct embed's** `timezone `**URL parameter** (on iframe or shareable-URL embeds only, see [Embedded dashboards](#embedded-dashboards)). This outranks everything.
2. Otherwise, the chart's timezone setting applies:
- **Project timezone** (the default): the project's timezone, for every viewer.
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