Q:
log in Laurels
It shouldn’t make a difference what time you sign in… your daily login reward should be waiting for you as long as the daily reset has happened.
Also, you don’t get laurels every day… if you open your achievement panel, you should see where in the reward cycle you are. And the cycle doesn’t progress unless you login… e.g. if you didn’t log in yesterday, the reward you would have received yesterday is given to you today, and today’s gift delayed until tomorrow, and so forth.
Reset is at 5pm PDT and 4pm PST. Log-in rewards are available at this time each day, providing one logs in at or after that time (each day).
Here’s a list of each subsequent (daily) log-in’s reward: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Login_rewards#Reward_track
You can see that Laurels are given on the second day of each week, plus on the end of the third week, and as a choice on the end of the fourth week.
Good luck.