Why are reports (such as transaction download report) shown in UTC instead of my local timezone?

Describe the problem:
When I download transactions, the times shown are in UTC. I want them to show up as my timezone (US Central Standard Time).

What have you tried to fix this so far?
Doesn’t appear to be anything I can change to fix this…all that the timezone does in the settings area is offset the report date/time range.

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I would find this quite helpful too.

The blockchain gives data in UTC time. Some of the exchanges give times for exports using your local time or some other timezone. This is a big problem I have found in getting data from different sources. Especially CSV imports.
I am only guessing that they are just importing the times they get from the source assuming UTC. If they start trying to adjust times then data can get really screwed up. Its already bad enough. If all data source platforms gave the data in UTC time then an adjustment could be made in the end user application but sadly this does not seem to be done.
This is not an answer just explaining what I have seen.

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Hello!

Alex from Koinly here :slight_smile:

It’s because Koinly converts all the different timestamps to UTC when you import your transactions, so when you extract a transaction history report, it will use UTC. It does this because it needs to have all timestamps in the same timezone to ensure accurate records.

But note that if you print the “Complete Tax Report” it will use the timezone that you have in your settings.

Sorry for the inconvenience! We hope to add more customization options as time goes on :slight_smile:

Best regards,
Alex

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