Hi Stefan, The timezone returned by the AccountTimeZoneId is the effectively timezone for the account. If I go to sign up for a new account, the timezone I can select is GMT-5 Eastern, not GMT-4 due to daylight savings time. The value from the report matches that.
- Kevin Winter AdWords API Team On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 4:36:10 AM UTC-4, Stefan Podkowinski wrote: > > 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en
