Choose your time zone to troubleshoot ads

They're ordered by proximity to the GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) time zone. Each time zone lists the region followed by the hours the time zone is ahead or behind GMT, both in and out of Daylight Saving Time.

For example, the time zone in Accra, Ghana, is the same as the GMT time zone, so Accra is at the top of the list: Accra 0:00/0:00. By contrast, New York, USA, is four or five hours behind GMT, so it’s farther down: New York -05:00/-04:00.

Note that the regions in this list are grouped by continent (and areas such as the Atlantic).

The time zone you set applies to every account in Campaign Manager 360. It affects these details:

• Ads

  • Start/End date and time
  • Creative Start/End date and time (under Creative assignments)

• Creatives

  • Created date and Modified date

• Placements

  • Created date

• Change log

  • Date/time in the change log list (Admin > Change log or Admin > Account > Change log)

Note: Time zones changes do not affect unsaved entries into your date/time fields. If you have an item open, save it before you change your time zone.

Changing your time zone can affect the date as well as the time displayed for ads, creatives, and change logs.

For example, 10:00 pm in New York is 4:00 am in Paris: the 6-hour time difference means that local time in Paris is already in the next day. Campaign Manager 360 accounts for this difference when you change your time zone, updating the time six hours later and the date to the next day.

In the case of New York and Paris, 9/1/2012 10:00 pm New York City time changes to 9/2/2012 4:00 am Paris time when you change the time zone from New York -05:00/-04:00 to Paris +01:00/+2:00.

The start of each day for campaign and placement dates is 12:00 am in the time zone specified in your contract. You cannot check or change this time zone in Campaign Manager 360. Campaign and placement dates do not display differently when you change your time zone in Campaign Manager 360. That’s because these dates are not tied to a specific time. Instead, campaign and placement dates follow the time zone specified in your contract.

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In this example, your primary audience for an ad is in Paris, France, and you want the ad to start serving at 6:00 pm, Paris time, on 3/1/2013. Looking in Campaign Manager 360, you see your current time zone is New York -05:00/-04:00 (the default in Campaign Manager 360), and your ad is scheduled to start serving at 11:00 am, 3/1/2013. What next?

1. Select Paris +01:00/+2:00 from the time zone menu. Now you can see your ad start time represented in the Paris time zone. This makes it easier to check what time it will be locally in Paris when your ad starts serving.

2. Once you change the time zone to Paris +01:00/+2:00, all dates/times on your ad properties page change to reflect the corresponding local time in Paris. This includes your ad, which changes from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm, as Paris time is 6 hours later than Paris time. For a list of the fields display differently based on your time zone selection, see the section above: Fields affected by your time zone selection.

   Keep in mind that some date/times may be pushed into the next day. For example, 9/1/2012 10:00 pm New York City time changes to 9/2/2012 4:00 am Paris time.

3. Now that your time zone is set to Paris time, you can schedule your ad to start serving based on Paris local time. If you set your Start time to 6:00 pm, the ad will start serving when it is 6:00 pm in Paris on your start date.

   Note that it will be 12:00 pm in New York and 6:00 pm in Paris when your ad starts serving: they are the same times, just adjusted for different time zones.