Fresh dates - what time zone

[martin]

I get some listings with a fresh date. The date shows 21 Sep but my logs say that Googlebot visited the page on 20/Sep/2002:22:19:49 -0500.

Does anybody know what time zone are the fresh tags displayed in?

[shelleycat]

I've been wondering this too actually. So far I've assumed that they are in an American time zone as they always appear showing (my) yesterday's date - I live in the eastern most time zone so it's just about always yesterday in the US from my viewpoint. However I'm never sure if I was just slow picking up the new fresh listing as I don't generally do the same searchs each day. I've tried checking when my own page gets a fresh listing but I haven't updated it in a couple of days so it doesn't have a fresh listing right now to check.

[Sasquatch]

In the days of the Google Beta the times were always the local times for their servers on the west coast, or Pacific time zone.

If they are no longer using PDT I would suspect that they would use UTC.

[Powdork]

At 11:23 PST 9/22/02 I started seeing fresh dates for 22 Sep 2002.

Here is the excerpt from the raw logs.

64.68.82.39 - - [21/Sep/2002:23:54:10 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 8969 "-" "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"

So I'm guessing its not PST since thats where I live. Maybe. My hosting provider is out of Baltimore and the stats are from them and I can sometimes see the whole days update by 11:00 so it is possible Googlebot came after 11:00 and is posting the results real time. This is the only Gbody visit according to the logs and I can't see anything that says she went past "/" but I really don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to reading these. I have six pages showing the "sell by 22 sep 2002" stamp.

[Powdork]

oops, PDT

[Sasquatch]

My bets are on UTC then, which would make the most sense anyway.

[martin]

UTC sounds reasonable.

20/Sep/2002:22:19:49 -0500

is

21/Sep/2002:03:19:49 +0000

[Chronos]

I hate to seem ignorant, however I am at a loss finding the "Fresh" tags on Google. Is it listed next to the search listing, on the cashed page, or somewhere else?

[korkus2000]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld Chronos,
^{don't forget to read paynt's welcome post [webmasterworld.com].}

They are the little green dates by some of the urls in the SERPs that are spidered daily for information. They used to say Fresh by them but now they don't.

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[Chronos]

They are the little green dates

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