Hi Kevin Your statement on how accounts won't obey DST is contrary to what I understand how AdWords handles account timezone settings. E.g. refer to "Data impacted by daylight savings time" at http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2404039 If the AdWords API won't make any DST adjustments, how would any API and frontend data match up at all during the summer time?
On Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:38:26 UTC+2, Kevin Winter wrote: > > Hi Brandon, > The account timezone is chosen and fixed in place upon account creation. > The data and statistics will always be in that timezone. For the most > part, this doesn't matter because we don't expose time values in reports. > It does come into play when scheduling report downloads. You could think > of your account as a member of a timezone that doesn't obey daylight > savings time. The Timezone returned by the API doesn't change, but YOUR > timezone does (due to daylight savings time). As a result, you'll need to > adjust when a report runs to follow daylight savings time to make sure that > the report contains the data you expect - i.e. that you are pulling data > three hours behind the account timezone. > > Please note that we don't recommend relying on the hour-by-hour changes in > reports. Not all statistics are available on an hourly basis, see > here<http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=2544985>for > more details. > > - Kevin Winter > AdWords API Team > > On Monday, August 13, 2012 3:49:10 PM UTC-4, Brandon Parise wrote: >> >> I pull a report @ 3:30PM EST and this is an example row: >> >> 98697020,2012-08-13,15,(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time >> >> The problem here is that currently Eastern Time is GMT-04:00 due to >> daylight savings. >> >> This is causing some confusion on our end because 3PM @ -05:00 offset is >> actually in the "future" >> >> Brandon >> > -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
