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diff --git a/doc/user/project/milestones/burndown_and_burnup_charts.md b/doc/user/project/milestones/burndown_and_burnup_charts.md index 81b334c0a02..c7ed6069cb6 100644 --- a/doc/user/project/milestones/burndown_and_burnup_charts.md +++ b/doc/user/project/milestones/burndown_and_burnup_charts.md @@ -137,14 +137,16 @@ To switch between the two settings, select either **Issues** or **Issue weight** When sorting by weight, make sure all your issues have weight assigned, because issues with no weight don't show on the chart. -<!-- ## Troubleshooting +## Troubleshooting -Include any troubleshooting steps that you can foresee. If you know beforehand what issues -one might have when setting this up, or when something is changed, or on upgrading, it's -important to describe those, too. Think of things that may go wrong and include them here. -This is important to minimize requests for support, and to avoid doc comments with -questions that you know someone might ask. +### Burndown and burnup charts do not show the correct issue status -Each scenario can be a third-level heading, for example `### Getting error message X`. -If you have none to add when creating a doc, leave this section in place -but commented out to help encourage others to add to it in the future. --> +A limitation of these charts is that [the days are in the UTC time zone](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/267967). + +This can cause the graphs to be inaccurate in other timezones. For example: + +- All the issues in a milestone are recorded as being closed on or before the last day. +- One issue was closed on the last day at 6 PM PST (Pacific time), which is UTC-7. +- The issue activity log displays the closure time at 6 PM on the last day of the milestone. +- The charts plot the time in UTC, so for this issue, the close time is 1 AM the following day. +- The charts show the milestone as incomplete and missing one closed issue. |