diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 83a2fc9a303..2289fd18331 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 1. [19043](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/19043): Enforce all influx CLI flag args are valid
 1. [19188](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/19188): Dashboard cells correctly map results when multiple queries exist
+1. [19146](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/19146): Dashboard cells and overlay use UTC as query time when toggling to UTC timezone
 
 ## v2.0.0-beta.15 [2020-07-23]
 
diff --git a/ui/src/dashboards/selectors/index.test.ts b/ui/src/dashboards/selectors/index.test.ts
index ad4fb07d78a..c89551942f8 100644
--- a/ui/src/dashboards/selectors/index.test.ts
+++ b/ui/src/dashboards/selectors/index.test.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 // Funcs
+import {mocked} from 'ts-jest/utils'
 import {
   getTimeRange,
   getTimeRangeWithTimezone,
 } from 'src/dashboards/selectors/index'
-import moment from 'moment'
+import {getTimezoneOffset} from 'src/dashboards/utils/getTimezoneOffset'
+
+jest.mock('src/dashboards/utils/getTimezoneOffset')
 
 // Types
 import {RangeState} from 'src/dashboards/reducers/ranges'
@@ -30,22 +33,37 @@ const untypedGetTimeRangeWithTimeZone = getTimeRangeWithTimezone as (a: {
 }) => TimeRange
 
 describe('Dashboards.Selector', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    jest.clearAllMocks()
+  })
   const dashboardIDs = [
     '04c6f3976f4b8001',
     '04c6f3976f4b8000',
     '04c6f3976f4b8002',
+    '04c6f3976f4b8003',
+    '04c6f3976f4b8004',
   ]
-  const lower = `2020-05-05T10:00:00${moment().format('Z')}`
-  const upper = `2020-05-05T11:00:00${moment().format('Z')}`
-  const customTimeRange = {
-    lower,
-    upper,
+  const customTimeRangePST = {
+    lower: '2020-05-05T10:00:00-07:00',
+    upper: '2020-05-05T11:00:00-07:00',
+    type: 'custom',
+  } as CustomTimeRange
+  const customTimeRangeCET = {
+    lower: '2020-05-05T10:00:00+02:00',
+    upper: '2020-05-05T11:00:00+02:00',
+    type: 'custom',
+  } as CustomTimeRange
+  const customTimeRangeGMT = {
+    lower: '2020-05-05T10:00:00+00:00',
+    upper: '2020-05-05T11:00:00+00:00',
     type: 'custom',
   } as CustomTimeRange
   const ranges: RangeState = {
     [dashboardIDs[0]]: pastFifteenMinTimeRange,
     [dashboardIDs[1]]: pastHourTimeRange,
-    [dashboardIDs[2]]: customTimeRange,
+    [dashboardIDs[2]]: customTimeRangePST,
+    [dashboardIDs[3]]: customTimeRangeCET,
+    [dashboardIDs[4]]: customTimeRangeGMT,
   }
 
   it('should return the correct range when a matching dashboard ID is found', () => {
@@ -72,7 +90,7 @@ describe('Dashboards.Selector', () => {
     ).toEqual(DEFAULT_TIME_RANGE)
   })
 
-  it('should return the an unmodified version of the timeRange when the timeZone is local', () => {
+  it('should return an unmodified version of the timeRange when the timeZone is local', () => {
     const currentDashboard = {id: dashboardIDs[2]}
     const app: AppPresentationState = {
       ephemeral: {
@@ -91,10 +109,10 @@ describe('Dashboards.Selector', () => {
 
     expect(
       untypedGetTimeRangeWithTimeZone({ranges, currentDashboard, app})
-    ).toEqual(customTimeRange)
+    ).toEqual(customTimeRangePST)
   })
 
-  it('should return the timeRange for the same hour with a UTC timezone when the timeZone is UTC', () => {
+  it('should return the timeRange for the same hour with a UTC timezone when the timeZone is UTC and the locale is 7 timezones behind UTC', () => {
     const currentDashboard = {id: dashboardIDs[2]}
 
     const app: AppPresentationState = {
@@ -117,6 +135,70 @@ describe('Dashboards.Selector', () => {
       upper: `2020-05-05T11:00:00Z`,
       type: 'custom',
     }
+    // Offset for PST
+    mocked(getTimezoneOffset).mockImplementation(() => 420)
+
+    expect(
+      untypedGetTimeRangeWithTimeZone({ranges, currentDashboard, app})
+    ).toEqual(expected)
+  })
+
+  it('should return the timeRange for the same hour with a UTC timezone when the timeZone is UTC and the locale is 2 timezones ahead of UTC', () => {
+    const currentDashboard = {id: dashboardIDs[3]}
+
+    const app: AppPresentationState = {
+      ephemeral: {
+        inPresentationMode: false,
+        hasUpdatedTimeRangeInVEO: false,
+      },
+      persisted: {
+        autoRefresh: 0,
+        showTemplateControlBar: false,
+        navBarState: 'expanded',
+        notebookMiniMapState: 'expanded',
+        timeZone: 'UTC' as TimeZone,
+        theme: 'dark',
+      },
+    }
+
+    const expected = {
+      lower: `2020-05-05T10:00:00Z`,
+      upper: `2020-05-05T11:00:00Z`,
+      type: 'custom',
+    }
+    // Offset for CET
+    mocked(getTimezoneOffset).mockImplementation(() => -120)
+
+    expect(
+      untypedGetTimeRangeWithTimeZone({ranges, currentDashboard, app})
+    ).toEqual(expected)
+  })
+
+  it('should return the timeRange when the timezone has no offset', () => {
+    const currentDashboard = {id: dashboardIDs[4]}
+
+    const app: AppPresentationState = {
+      ephemeral: {
+        inPresentationMode: false,
+        hasUpdatedTimeRangeInVEO: false,
+      },
+      persisted: {
+        autoRefresh: 0,
+        showTemplateControlBar: false,
+        navBarState: 'expanded',
+        notebookMiniMapState: 'expanded',
+        timeZone: 'UTC' as TimeZone,
+        theme: 'dark',
+      },
+    }
+
+    const expected = {
+      lower: `2020-05-05T10:00:00Z`,
+      upper: `2020-05-05T11:00:00Z`,
+      type: 'custom',
+    }
+
+    mocked(getTimezoneOffset).mockImplementation(() => 0)
 
     expect(
       untypedGetTimeRangeWithTimeZone({ranges, currentDashboard, app})
diff --git a/ui/src/dashboards/selectors/index.ts b/ui/src/dashboards/selectors/index.ts
index f30bfc07e13..a275b6c7f3f 100644
--- a/ui/src/dashboards/selectors/index.ts
+++ b/ui/src/dashboards/selectors/index.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
+// Libraries
 import {get} from 'lodash'
 import moment from 'moment'
+
+// Types
 import {
   AppState,
   Check,
@@ -9,7 +12,10 @@ import {
   View,
   ViewType,
 } from 'src/types'
+
+// Utility
 import {currentContext} from 'src/shared/selectors/currentContext'
+import {getTimezoneOffset} from 'src/dashboards/utils/getTimezoneOffset'
 
 // Constants
 import {DEFAULT_TIME_RANGE} from 'src/shared/constants/timeRanges'
@@ -53,25 +59,16 @@ export const isCurrentPageDashboard = (state: AppState): boolean =>
 // from the local time to the same time in UTC if UTC is selected from the
 // timezone dropdown. This is feature was original requested here:
 // https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/17877
+// and finalized across the dashboards & the data explorer here:
+// https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/pull/19146
 // Example: user selected 10-11:00am and sets the dropdown to UTC
 // Query should run against 10-11:00am UTC rather than querying
 // 10-11:00am local time (offset depending on timezone)
-export const setTimeToUTC = (date: string): string => {
-  const offset = new Date(date).getTimezoneOffset()
-  if (offset > 0) {
-    return moment
-      .utc(date)
-      .subtract(offset, 'minutes')
-      .format()
-  }
-  if (offset < 0) {
-    return moment
-      .utc(date)
-      .add(offset, 'minutes')
-      .format()
-  }
-  return moment.utc(date).format()
-}
+export const setTimeToUTC = (date: string): string =>
+  moment
+    .utc(date)
+    .subtract(getTimezoneOffset(), 'minutes')
+    .format()
 
 export const getTimeZone = (state: AppState): TimeZone => {
   return state.app.persisted.timeZone || 'Local'
diff --git a/ui/src/dashboards/utils/getTimezoneOffset.ts b/ui/src/dashboards/utils/getTimezoneOffset.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b9e32e726d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/src/dashboards/utils/getTimezoneOffset.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+/**
+ * This files has been created as a way to effectively test
+ * the getTimeRangeWithTimezone function since current system (circleCI, Jenkins)
+ * and JS Date limitations prevent us from fully testing out its dependent functions
+ *
+ * It should be noted that the native getTimezoneOffset function returns a number
+ * that represents the number of minutes (not hours) the "local" timezone is offset
+ * where locations West of UTC are positive (+420) and locations East of UTC are negative (-120):
+ *
+ * https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/getTimezoneOffset
+ **/
+
+export const getTimezoneOffset = (): number => new Date().getTimezoneOffset()
diff --git a/ui/src/shared/components/RefreshingView.tsx b/ui/src/shared/components/RefreshingView.tsx
index acbb12b756f..a69f83f3c9b 100644
--- a/ui/src/shared/components/RefreshingView.tsx
+++ b/ui/src/shared/components/RefreshingView.tsx
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import CellEvent from 'src/perf/components/CellEvent'
 
 // Utils
 import {GlobalAutoRefresher} from 'src/utils/AutoRefresher'
-import {getTimeRange} from 'src/dashboards/selectors'
+import {getTimeRangeWithTimezone} from 'src/dashboards/selectors'
 import {checkResultsLength} from 'src/shared/utils/vis'
 import {getActiveTimeRange} from 'src/timeMachine/selectors/index'
 
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ class RefreshingView extends PureComponent<Props, State> {
 }
 
 const mstp = (state: AppState, ownProps: OwnProps) => {
-  const timeRange = getTimeRange(state)
+  const timeRange = getTimeRangeWithTimezone(state)
   const ranges = getActiveTimeRange(timeRange, ownProps.properties.queries)
   const {timeZone, theme} = state.app.persisted
 
diff --git a/ui/src/shared/components/TimeSeries.tsx b/ui/src/shared/components/TimeSeries.tsx
index eb001534bbc..a0583f34f3c 100644
--- a/ui/src/shared/components/TimeSeries.tsx
+++ b/ui/src/shared/components/TimeSeries.tsx
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import {getCachedResultsThunk} from 'src/shared/apis/queryCache'
 
 // Utils
 import {
-  getTimeRange,
+  getTimeRangeWithTimezone,
   isCurrentPageDashboard as isCurrentPageDashboardSelector,
 } from 'src/dashboards/selectors'
 import {getVariables, asAssignment} from 'src/variables/selectors'
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ class TimeSeries extends Component<Props, State> {
 }
 
 const mstp = (state: AppState, props: OwnProps) => {
-  const timeRange = getTimeRange(state)
+  const timeRange = getTimeRangeWithTimezone(state)
 
   // NOTE: cannot use getAllVariables here because the TimeSeries
   // component appends it automatically. That should be fixed
diff --git a/ui/src/timeMachine/components/Vis.tsx b/ui/src/timeMachine/components/Vis.tsx
index 4f76a126093..11dcbbba326 100644
--- a/ui/src/timeMachine/components/Vis.tsx
+++ b/ui/src/timeMachine/components/Vis.tsx
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import {
   getFillColumnsSelection,
   getSymbolColumnsSelection,
 } from 'src/timeMachine/selectors'
-import {getTimeRange, getTimeZone} from 'src/dashboards/selectors'
+import {getTimeRangeWithTimezone, getTimeZone} from 'src/dashboards/selectors'
 
 // Types
 import {RemoteDataState, AppState} from 'src/types'
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ const mstp = (state: AppState) => {
       statuses,
     },
   } = activeTimeMachine
-  const timeRange = getTimeRange(state)
+  const timeRange = getTimeRangeWithTimezone(state)
   const {
     alertBuilder: {type: checkType, thresholds: checkThresholds},
   } = state