Stats Time Is Ahead by a Day
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OK. So I adjusted the time under “General Settings” to reflect Central time. However, my blog stats are ahead by a whole day! Something is wrong somewhere, I just can’t seem to figure out where. Anyone have any ideas?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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WordPress runs on GMT (or UTC) time because people all over the world use wp.
http://www.dxing.com/utcgmt.htmThe time for your blog can be local, but everyone uses stats. It’s always the same 24 hours.
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Stats run on UT so the new day in your time zone would begin at 6PM Central. When we in the US return to DST next month, you’ll have to adjust that yourself. Unless you’re in one of those handful of midwestern counties that never change.
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No, they are always on the day as defined by wordpress. Each of their days is 24 hours, same as for everyone else. It’s just that you are 5 or 6 hours behind wordpress. (depending on daylight savings)
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The other thing to remember also is that not everyone viewing your blog is in your time zone, or for that matter even in your country, so having stats run on your time zone becomes kind of not really an issue. The important thing is that they run for 24 hours and then reset for the next 24 hour period. The nature of the internet, and the fact that we can connect to places all over the world any time of the day or night sort of makes a clock obsolete in a way.
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not everybody is in my timezone, sure. But MY frame of reference is UTC -8, it shouldn’t be that hard to modify stats to fit the frame of reference of the logged in user.
All I want is to have wordpress tell me when these thing happened from my frame of reference. I don’t need to know what time the person looking at my page thought it was, and it doesn’t do anybody any good if blog reader and blog writer are both in timezones different than that of UTC.
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I agree with jyonah also. I understand now their time of reference, but also it makes little sense to start a blog day in some obscure time zone instead of reference the largest market there is on the planet, yes the U.S. You might wonder why that would be necessary, but it makes perfect sense, to reference it to the largest market, including the largest market of bloggers.
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Americans are the only people who go overseas and refer to the people who live there as foreigners.
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I heard that on Letterman years ago. He was in Italy, and he was talking about Italians, saying “There are all these foreigners, you know, Italians, here.” Michael Lewis, the writer, did the same in France, actually complaining about how they all spoke French all the time.
And the reason WP.com stats are set to one single time is so that meaningful comparisons can be made between blogs; can you imagine the CP drama if the Kiwis could say “I’ve got two hundred hits already” when the Yanks were still at one or two, just because they’d set their clocks differently?
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My blog is very time specific… It covers sporting events that usually begin at 7:00 or 7:30 CT. But, 7:00 CT (with DST) is exactly 12:00 MIDNIGHT GMT, so its a brand new day for WordPress.
As you might guess, this makes it almost impossible for me to judge by stats how many ppl are following along the games LIVE, since it is literally split up into two days.
Though this post has told me a lot, I’m still not quite sure: Is it possible to change STATS to work under my own CT clock? If so, how? If not, that’s alright, I’d just like to be sure.
Thanks!
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No it is not possible to change wordpress stats times to your timezone.
If you need that, then get statcounter or sitemeter or activemeter and put on your site. You need to use the plain HTML version, not the javascript version. Javascript is not allowed here due to security concerns.
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