Oh dear, another unbeliever…
You shall bow before the great Coordinated Universal Time.
You shall not think in or about any other time system/zone than UTC.
You shall organize your entire life according to UTC.
😉
I suppose you now understand the issue: WP Stats runs on UTC. Barring a hack in the plugin, that’s just what there is.
so when the “day” in UTC time turns over (whatever time that is in PST) is when the “day” flips in the WP.com Stats plugin.
so i’d either have to set my blog UTC time to something way off from where i am located or hack the plugin.
im basically SOL.
Yes, at midnight UTC your blog’s “day” ends, too, according to WP Stats.
BTW: UTC = PST – 8 hours (so, UTC rollover occurs at 4:00pm PST)
Also, note that under Options > General settings you’ll see that WP itself also operates under UTC, which you can offset by whichever number of hours you’re at. This is somewhat different from some other plugins and scripts, that operate at the server’s timezone – from which you’d have to set the proper offset in hours relative to your local time. Finally: UTC doesn’t recognize / observe daylight saving time (DST), so during DST, UTC = PST – 9 hours
Of course, there are some other stats plugins that do work with the same offset you use (set) for your entire WP blog, under Options > General.
It isn’t just an issue with stats. This is a change in one of the recent versions of WP. 2.8.6 didn’t have this issue. It appears that only 2.9.* has it. MailPress also publishes “Posts Published Yesterday” on UTC time, instead of local.
