I managed to do this by just recreating the behavior of localize function manually
| eval eventTimeMinusX=_time-60
| eval eventTimePlusX=_time+60
| map search="search sourcetype=WinEventLog:Application host=$host$ _time>=$eventTimeMinusX$ _time<=$eventTimePlusX$" maxsearches=100
| sort host, _time
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