diff --git a/superset/assets/javascripts/components/CachedLabel.jsx b/superset/assets/javascripts/components/CachedLabel.jsx
index e649fad3b2..4c1995b8a1 100644
--- a/superset/assets/javascripts/components/CachedLabel.jsx
+++ b/superset/assets/javascripts/components/CachedLabel.jsx
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class CacheLabel extends React.PureComponent {
   updateTooltipContent() {
     const cachedText = this.props.cachedTimestamp ? (
       <span>
-        Loaded data cached <b>{moment(this.props.cachedTimestamp).fromNow()}</b>
+        Loaded data cached <b>{moment.utc(this.props.cachedTimestamp).fromNow()}</b>
       </span>) :
       'Loaded from cache';
 
diff --git a/superset/assets/javascripts/dashboard/Dashboard.jsx b/superset/assets/javascripts/dashboard/Dashboard.jsx
index 59e8e8874e..2910324cd6 100644
--- a/superset/assets/javascripts/dashboard/Dashboard.jsx
+++ b/superset/assets/javascripts/dashboard/Dashboard.jsx
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ export function dashboardContainer(dashboard, datasources) {
     done(slice) {
       const refresh = slice.getWidgetHeader().find('.refresh');
       const data = slice.data;
-      const cachedWhen = moment(data.cached_dttm).fromNow();
+      const cachedWhen = moment.utc(data.cached_dttm).fromNow();
       if (data !== undefined && data.is_cached) {
         refresh
         .addClass('danger')
diff --git a/superset/viz.py b/superset/viz.py
index e244df41fe..608e98a4d2 100755
--- a/superset/viz.py
+++ b/superset/viz.py
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ class BaseViz(object):
                 'status': self.status,
                 'stacktrace': stacktrace,
             }
-            payload['cached_dttm'] = datetime.now().isoformat().split('.')[0]
+            payload['cached_dttm'] = datetime.utcnow().isoformat().split('.')[0]
             logging.info("Caching for the next {} seconds".format(
                 cache_timeout))
             data = self.json_dumps(payload)