Hello Tam, It's not something that can be done with the API. I'd recommend contacting the AdWords representative who is working on the account in question, or if there isn't a specific contact person assigned for the account, using the form at
https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/request.py?fhc=1&ctx=cuffhelp to request assistance. Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On Jan 6, 5:03 am, tam <tamala...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jeff > > thanks for that. One further question. If an account has this > default time but ought to be changed to, say, GMT, is it possible to > do this and, if so, what does this involve? can it be done by the > API? Is there a cost involved and how long would it take to alter the > timezone for an account? > > Thanks in advance > > Tam > > On Jan 5, 6:57 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > wrote: > > > Hello Tam, > > > While you do need to specify a time zone when creating an AdWords > > account nowadays, I would not be surprised if some older AdWords > > accounts might be lacking this information. (I also would not be > > surprised if there are some edge cases in account creation that manage > > to avoid setting this value.) > > > If there's no time zone associated with an account, then Pacific Time > > is assumed: > > > http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=18896 > > > Cheers, > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > On Jan 5, 12:51 pm, tam <tamala...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > for some reason, API requests for the account info via the function > > > getAccountInfo sometimes fail to return the timezone id info. (Note > > > that when the happens the corresponding xml tags are also missing). > > > All the other parameters seem to be being returned as expected. Can > > > anyone please tell me a) why this is happening? b) is there anything > > > i can do to get the timezone info? and c) failing that, is there any > > > surefire way of deducing the timezone from the other parameters? I > > > suspect i can use the currency but don't know if this is 100% safe > > > > One thing that's crossed my mind is that the parameter isn't defined > > > in the first place, but I'd imagine this parameter has to be > > > explicitly defined for the account to work in the first place. Does > > > anyone know any different? > > > Note also that the currency parameter for these accounts is GBP so > > > they correspond to British accounts in this case although i don't know > > > if that's relevant or not > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Tam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
