Are there any best practices for dealing with timezones in timeseries data? I’ve been looking around and haven’t seen anything obvious. I assume some use UTC for everything, some use local time, but I’m not sure what I should be doing here.
I always store as UTC then convert as needed at view/display time
Though now that I work on a globally distributed team, we display everything UTC. Otherwise it’s a pain to have to qualify the time in app screenshots, etc
When on call I even set my laptop to UTC. Easier when you have to compare text logs or something
I am using Amazon TimeStream, which seems to store the time with offset from UTC, so that might get me the best of both worlds. I guess I’ll find out as I monitor more than one site.
Ok, so TimeStream actually saves it in UTC because it’s doing the TZ offset for me. I guess this is best.
