diff --git a/src/pypromice/process/aws.py b/src/pypromice/process/aws.py
index 9b2a80c2..bdd70c02 100644
--- a/src/pypromice/process/aws.py
+++ b/src/pypromice/process/aws.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 """
 from importlib import metadata
 import os, unittest, toml, datetime, uuid, pkg_resources
+from typing import Optional
+
 import numpy as np
 import warnings
 warnings.simplefilter(action='ignore', category=FutureWarning)
@@ -304,8 +306,8 @@ def getConfig(config_file, inpath):
             assert(field in conf[k].keys()), field+" not in config keys"
     return conf
 
-def getL0(infile, nodata, cols, skiprows, file_version, 
-          delimiter=',', comment='#'):
+def getL0(infile, nodata, cols, skiprows, file_version,
+          delimiter=',', comment='#', time_offset: Optional[float] = None) -> xr.Dataset:
     ''' Read L0 data file into pandas DataFrame object
     
     Parameters
@@ -324,6 +326,8 @@ def getL0(infile, nodata, cols, skiprows, file_version,
         String delimiter for L0 file
     comment : str
         Notifier of commented sections in L0 file
+    time_offset : Optional[float]
+        Time offset in hours for correcting for non utc time data.
     
     Returns
     -------
@@ -366,7 +370,9 @@ def getL0(infile, nodata, cols, skiprows, file_version,
                 print(e)
                 print('\n\t\t> Trying again removing apostrophes in timestamp (old files format)')
                 df.index = pd.to_datetime(df.index.str.replace("\"",""))
-            
+
+    if time_offset is not None:
+        df.index = df.index + timedelta(hours=time_offset)
 
     # Drop SKIP columns
     for c in df.columns: