title: Display time in local timezone when querying InfluxDB from the CLI
body: <p>I store points in InfluxDB using UTC but when querying from the <a href="https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.6/tools/shell/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">command line</a>, </p>
  
  <pre><code>influx -precision rfc3339
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  <p>I want to display them in the local timezone, for all queries. How can I do that?</p>
  
  <p>To display the time in a specific timezone, I can add (for example) <code>tz('America/Chicago')</code> to the end of each query, but this is annoying. Is there a way to configure Influx to show the time in a specific timezone for <em>all</em> queries? The CLI documentation doesn't list and argument or command to do that.</p>