[Feat] Local browser time should not be used for absolute dates when timezone is UTC

[balakrishnabk]

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What Grafana version are you using?

Grafana v5.2.1 (commit: 2040f61) version

What datasource are you using?

influxdb

What OS are you running grafana on?

ubuntu

What did you do?

select absolute dates for querying

What was the expected result?

the timeline should be same and use UTC instead of local browser

What happened instead?

the calculations are based on browser time when absolute dates are selected

If related to metric query / data viz:

Include raw network request & response: get by opening Chrome Dev Tools (F12, Ctrl+Shift+I on windows, Cmd+Opt+I on Mac), go the network tab.

Reference with screenshots.
https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-influxdb-difference-resultset-in-previous-week-vs-timerange-filter/9054

[marefr]

Changing this to feature instead of bug. Seems this has worked this way since at least Grafana v4.1.0 and I haven't found any other issue related to this.

[pkolyvas]

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