Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5724090-20130612214443/@comment-1158325-20130613100111

Most times displayed are in your local time set through Special:Preferences. One of the easiest ways to see the server time is to put on a page and preview it. Then you can see the offset easily. And yes, the counter uses midnight server time, and only page edits (any namespace, luckily) are counted.

Also, as a general point that I like to emphasize (I haven't looked at your contributions), it's best if the edits you make for the badge are constructive and helpful, rather than aimed solely at getting the badge. I'm a week away from the one for editing for a year on another wiki, and by now it's habit to check the wiki every day and look for something I can improve or help with. Even fixing a typo or something like that is better than doing something spammy or that doesn't improve anything. Plus, it looks pretty silly if you look at someone's contributions who is obviously only trying to get the badge. Sorry for the big paragraph, just a little idealist rant I like to go on.