Hi Jeff, Thanks for the info. I was afraid of that. We've ditched the code that made this a requirement, but we still wanted to know what the creation date is. For future reference, here's what we came up with. It's a bit hackish, but what I did was to get the list of all campaigns for each account, and then pick the earliest start date among them. There's a chance (probably a good chance) that the account existed before any campaigns were created, but as I was interested in this from a reporting perspective, there wouldn't be any data that I cared about before that date.
Hope it helps, Don Spaulding On Jan 22, 11:21 am, AdWords API Advisor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Don, > > timeZoneEffectiveDate is the closest you'll come to retrieving > theaccountcreationdate via the AdWords API. While most accounts will > have their time zone set once atcreationtime and never changed, > there are some edge cases. So if you need the date with 100% > confidence, you cannot rely on timeZoneEffectiveDate always being an > accurate representation. > > Cheers, > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > On Jan 21, 2:35 pm, Don Spaulding <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a reliable method todetermine > > the date anaccountwas created? I don't see anything explicitly in > > the docs, but I'm hoping that I'm just missing it. The closest thing > > I could find is the 'timeZoneEffectiveDate' of the 'AccountInfo' > > object. > > > Thanks, > > Don --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
