Docs: add more time zone guidance (#79595)

* Created report time zone section with added guidance

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* Update docs/sources/dashboards/create-reports/index.md

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By default, reports use the saved time range of the dashboard. You can change the time range of the report by:
- Saving a modified time range to the dashboard.
- Saving a modified time range to the dashboard. Changing the dashboard time range without saving it doesn't change the time zone of the report.
- Setting a time range via the **Time range** field in the report form. If specified, the custom time range overrides the time range from the report's dashboard.
The page header of the report displays the time range for the dashboard's data queries. Dashboards set to use the browser's time zone use the time zone on the Grafana server.
The page header of the report displays the time range for the dashboard's data queries.
#### Report time zones
Reports use the time zone of the dashboard from which theyre generated. You can control the time zone for your reports by setting the dashboard to a specific time zone. Note that this affects the display of the dashboard for all users.
If a dashboard has the **Browser Time** setting, the reports generated from that dashboard use the time zone of the Grafana server. As a result, this time zone might not match the time zone of users creating or receiving the report.
If the time zone is set differently between your Grafana server and its remote image renderer, then the time ranges in the report might be different between the page header and the time axes in the panels. To avoid this, set the time zone to UTC for dashboards when using a remote renderer. Each dashboard's time zone setting is visible in the [time range controls][].