Google accounting period

When does the Google accounting day start and finish?

[Roomy]

I am seeing what appears to be a lag lasting into the next accounting day in my adsense figures and was interested to know when the Google accounting day starts and finishes.. ie is it midnight to midnight EST? Or are they on PST? GMT?

[Jenstar]

Pacific Standard Time (PST). Stats can take a few hours (sometimes up to 24 hours) to catch up though.

[Roomy]

Thanks Jenstar so is that from Midnight to MIdnight?
I'm showing stats for 31 March still. So I guess I have about 10 mins to go before April 1st in California. I should then see a New Google day?

[DoppyNL]

Google lives in that timezone and works with that timezone.
So earnings made on march 31 are clicks made in the 24 hours in the google-timezone!

The stats adsense shows are NOT realtime; they are updated once ecery 6-12 hours.
After that, they can still change for some time, I've seen them change after 2 days.

[Roomy]

Ok my stats have just closed out and now my account reads April 1st. So your saying the revenue and stats that have just been recorded for March 31st can change? (I have never seen this happen to me in 8 months)
stats would appear to be collected over the 24 hour period (PST) You can check your stats all you want during theis period but until the clock strikes midnight in Santa Clara, the figure you see may not be accurate.

From the first second of the next day new stats are collected and the reporting lag starts again. But the stats from the previous day are cast in Stone as far as I can tell.

[DoppyNL]

Just looked at the faq-pages of google:
[www2.google.com...]

Looks like they are now updating every hour.
But there can be a delay of up to 24 hours.

So it is not certain yet what you've earned on 31 march.

Channels can take another 2 days.

I don't mind it takes some more time to see my earnings; I only check once 1 week or so; there isn't much more I can do then look at the stats; so I would be wasting my time if I looked at them every hour.
I did that when I just subscribed though :-/

I would say: "relax" and check it every now and then; and don't worry to much :)