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Analyzing User Events by Real-Time Timezone Adjustments

I want to analyze users' events based on their real time current timezone. Instead of choosing a single timezone, I want my data to be created according to each user's own timezone. I am having the following problem here; I am currently in Türkiye as a user, the time zone is GMT+3 and normally the time of my event should be June 23, 2025 11:32 am according to Istanbul time, but for this user, it gives me the time as 1:37 am when I enter the event and look at the time. How can I set this time setting so that each user is actually in their own timezone and specifically reflects that day? In other words, I want the data of the user in America to be created when it is really June 23, and at the same time, the user data that normally goes to June 24 should not be shown as June 23 and should be processed as June 24 in the data.

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Mixpanel stores all event timestamps in UTC by default, and the project timezone setting only affects how data is displayed in the Mixpanel UI—not how it is stored or ingested. This means that, regardless of where your users are located, the event times are recorded in UTC, and the UI will convert these times to the project’s selected timezone for display purposes. There is no built-in Mixpanel feature to automatically display or store event times in each individual user’s local timezone.Key points from the documentation:What you can do:References: - Manage Timezones for Projects - Default User Properties: $timezoneSummary: Mixpanel does not support per-user timezone event display or storage. All event times are stored in UTC, and the project timezone only affects UI display. To analyze events by each user's real local time, you must store the user's timezone and perform the conversion yourself during analysis or reporting.
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