Stats reset too early

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  iamchrismartin · Member · Jan 15, 2009 at 2:09 am

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  I’m on the east coast of the US so in the settings of my blog, I’ve got the Timezone set to UTC -5. All of my blog posts are showing up with correct timestamps, but every day my stats reset at 7 pm, which is the normal UTC time.

  What have I missed? What do I need to change so that my stats are on the right timezone?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 15, 2009 at 2:19 am

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  WordPress.COM backend a stats run on GMT/UTC since people all over the world use wordpress. You still get 24 hours of stats.

  The settings under settings > general for UTC offset only affect your blog publishing times.

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  iamchrismartin · Member · Jan 15, 2009 at 2:33 am

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  ahhh. Okay. I knew I was still getting 24 hrs, I’m just a perfectionist so I wanted it all to be in sync. Thanks for the answer.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 15, 2009 at 2:34 am

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  You’re very welcome.

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  wisdombody · Member · Jan 22, 2009 at 1:45 am

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  I have a question. I usually post around 8:30 at night. And so I feel like I can never get an accurate read on my stats, since it’s already the next day, according to my stats… Is there any way around this?

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  vivianpaige · Member · Jan 22, 2009 at 2:47 am

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  Please provide a link to your blog when asking questions in the forums and link it to your user name as explained in the sticky, 8 Things, at the top of the forums.

  And as noted above, your stats *are* accurate. They represent a 24 hour period. There is nothing that you can change.

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  nichellemybelle1 · Member · Feb 10, 2009 at 1:01 am

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  if you switch to a self-hosted wordpress blog can you get your stats in your own time and not UTC/GMT???

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  thesacredpath · Member · Feb 10, 2009 at 2:38 am

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  If you use a stats program like Google Analytics, Statcounter or Sitemeter, yes you can set the time zones and it will honor those for the stats. If you get the wordpress blog stats plugin for your stats, you will still be on UTC/GMT just like here since the stats work out of wordpress.COM.