# Balena Dashboard showing wrong time

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-dashboard-showing-wrong-time/369452>\
**Category:** balenaHub\
**Created:** [December 2, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-dashboard-showing-wrong-time/369452 "2023-12-02T13:12:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![firdoshdiakus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@firdoshdiakus](https://forums.balena.io/u/firdoshdiakus)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-dashboard-showing-wrong-time/369452/1 "2023-12-02T13:12:35Z")

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I have a balena beacon tracking software running on my raspberry pi 4. I have a time issue where by the update time every 30 seconds when scanning the beacon tag on my balena cloud dash board is approx 2 hours behind the real time on my laptop. Also sometimes the 30 second count down hangs up. The p…

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**Author:** ![TJvV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TJvV](https://forums.balena.io/u/TJvV)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2023, 8:19am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-dashboard-showing-wrong-time/369452/2 "2023-12-04T08:19:55Z")

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Regarding the 2 hours difference: did you configure the timezones correctly?  
Note there’s also a toggle in the dashboard that says whether you want to view things in UTC.

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**Author:** ![mpous](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/mpous/32/4742_2.png) [@mpous](https://forums.balena.io/u/mpous)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2023, 12:00pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-dashboard-showing-wrong-time/369452/3 "2023-12-04T12:00:45Z")

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@firdoshdiakus did you check the results of `date` on your hostOS? You can read more information here [Time management - Balena Documentation](https://docs.balena.io/reference/OS/time/#chrony)

On the other hand, could you please confirm if this is duplicated? [Balena Cloud Dashboard - #3 by firdoshdiakus](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-cloud-dashboard/369439/4)

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**Author:** ![firdoshdiakus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@firdoshdiakus](https://forums.balena.io/u/firdoshdiakus)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balena-dashboard-showing-wrong-time/369452/4 "2024-01-04T14:20:10Z")

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I have utc off and also created a variable called TZ Africa/Johannesburg but still no change. The time for dashboard in command line tool also shows utc time and its 2 hours behind