Fixing Timezone Issues in InfluxDB for IoT Time-Series Data

Fixing Timezone Issues in InfluxDB for IoT Time-Series Data Introduction If you’re building a platform that displays time-series data to users across different timezones, you’ve probably run into subtle but frustrating display bugs — data appearing on the wrong day, graphs shifting after a certain hour, or timestamps being off by hours. We hit exactly these issues on our IoT device management platform, where devices send data to InfluxDB at regular intervals. Here’s what went wrong and how I fixed it. ...

March 21, 2026 · 4 min · Sourabh Kourav