ga:date - local time or UTC?

[Andy Nichols]

Does the ga:date dimension store the date as local time to the
visitor, local time to the analytics account timezone, or UTC?

This has implications if I want to collect the previous day's data
from the API. Can I trigger a load just after midnight and expect all
the data to be there? Or will more come in later, from people in
different timezones?

Note that I am collecting for several customers in several time zones.

[Nick]

Hi.

All Google Analytics data is local to the time zone configured for a
particular account. There's an article describing how this is done
through the interface here: https://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55512&hl=en_US

And you can get the timezone set for an account from the Account Feed:
http://code.google.com/p/ga-api-http-samples/source/browse/trunk/src/v1/accountFeedResponse.xml

Typically all data should be in an account 24 hours after the previous
day.

-Nick