Storing updatedOn as UTC

[Warren Zhang]

Hey,

Looking at the code for OAuth2ProviderBase in the .NET library, it looks like the check for whether or not the access token is expiring compares against DateTime.Now. Would I ever run into any problems if I stored updatedOn as a UTC time and, say, the server's local timezone was set to >= UTC +1? 

Thanks,

Warren

[Anash P. Oommen (AdWords API Team)]

Hi Warren,

Yes, the AdWords API .NET library assumes that UpdatedOn uses the same timezone as the server timezone. So if you use UpdatedOn in UTC and the server timezone is UTC+1, the library would always think that the token is expired.

Could you file a feature request on https://github.com/googleads/googleads-dotnet-lib/issues? I think the dates in general should be in UTC in OAuth classes; this is something we can address for an upcoming release.

Cheers,
Anash P. Oommen,
AdWords API Advisor.