"Closing the Rings" and traveling across date line.

[iamasmith]

Travelled back from Croatia to the UK yesterday. Closed all 3 rings by 8 UK time. Got my perfect week achievements. Woke up this morning to a summary saying I’d only done it 6 times. Looked at Activity, yep. Lost 100 calories. The 100 calories I’d done between midnight and 1 in Croatia, Croatia is an hour ahead of the UK.

I am bummed out. That’s blown a 70 odd day streak, my perfect month and my September achievement which was to get a perfect month.

Could you have manually set the phone/watch back to UK time until the rollover I wonder.. possibly even correct it further by temporarily setting a +8 or +9 tz and fixing it in the morning..?

 

[Mlrollin91]

Could you have manually set the phone/watch back to UK time until the rollover I wonder.. possibly even correct it further by temporarily setting a +8 or +9 tz and fixing it in the morning..?

Once you go back to your current time, it will adjust it back to the problematic time. I tried this when going to Florida.

 

[nsteinmetz]

I think you should put this in as a feature request.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/watch.html
This is something Apple could handle between the watch and iPhone. You should be prompted when you do - something to the tune of "Do you want to keep your activity on your home time zone?" - so you could easily do so without any overlap or gaps. By keeping the data on "real" vs relative time, you're keeping it cleaner.

[doublepost=1546391823][/doublepost]Definitely is a feature Apple should include. Keeping both phone and watch on home time zone while overseas is a big price to pay to maintain a streak, especially when it would be so simple to offer the option for the activity app to stay on home time zone while the watch and phone adjusted to local time for other purposes.

I have just completed a “perfect year”, closing all three rings every day of 2018, and am concerned that it will be hard to repeat in 2019 since I will lose a Day crossing the date line.

The various tricks others have mentioned may work for exercise, but one needs at least 12 hours on each date to close stand ring.
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I think you should put this in as a feature request.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/watch.html
This is something Apple could handle between the watch and iPhone. You should be prompted when you do - something to the tune of "Do you want to keep your activity on your home time zone?" - so you could easily do so without any overlap or gaps. By keeping the data on "real" vs relative time, you're keeping it cleaner.

[doublepost=1546392805][/doublepost]I have just submitted this to Apple as a feature request, and suggest that others do the same!

 

[xDKP]

I have just completed a “perfect year”, closing all three rings every day of 2018

Wow great work man... I haven't been as good and my current streak of the rings 106 days - I'm traveling from Europe to Thailand January 18th and don't think my rings can cope with the travel, timezone change and long flight.

 

[millerj123]

Travel remains problematic, with only marginal work arounds. Hopefully Apple fixes it.

 

[ArianaM]

Curious to know what ended up happening for you and what you found out as I'm headed to AUS at the beginning of next month (Feb 4th and my flight arrives in Melbourne on the 6th. I have a decent layover in LA on the 4th). When I leave I will have a 340+ day streak going (660 calories/day) and I don't want to lose it! I've given this a lot more thought than I probably should have and I think I've devised a plan and hoping it works (I posted over on reddit and got one confirmation that it will work but still unsure).

My big concern, similar to your first question, is that upon the time change forward to AUS it will pull head activity into the next day. My only thought is to do my first day's workout when my timezone (EST) and Australia are on the same day so if it pulls it ahead, the exercise & activity rings will just be later in the day (so, I would have to do it between 3am and 7:30am before departing). I realize that with this plan, I will likely miss my stand ring for the 4th and 5th but I'm OK with that as I had to miss one due to an issue updating my watchOS a few months back... Anyway, my plan is as follows:

• To start, my phone is set to automatically set time based on location
• On the day of the 4th, I fill my activity ring before leaving home and for the airport my watch registers the activity for the day of the 4th based on EST (and would also be registered on the 4th if I was in AUS as well).
• Upon arriving into LAX (before turning airplane mode off), I turn Date and Time to Manual and set to Australia, thereby getting my watch and phone to think it is the 5th.
• I fill my activity ring for the 5th by doing a workout from the airport during my layover
• I leave LAX and continue to let my phone think I'm on Australia time
• I land in Australia on the 6th and hit the gym sometime that day to fill my rings on the 6th
  • At this point I can switch my phone back to auto set date and time

-Rob

do you have any update on your trip? Planning Melbourne trip on feb 16 from NYC! On departure date, will be 359 day streak!!

 

[millerj123]

do you have any update on your trip? Planning Melbourne trip on feb 16 from NYC! On departure date, will be 359 day streak!!

I had considered something similar, but on my last trip to Australia, I left my watch set on my home time, and just continued as normal. That way I didn't have to worry either way about the date line. I had set my work phone to automatically adjust so I'd still know what time it was as I got to my destination.

For this year, I was in an airport in Atlanta, walking briskly around for about an hour, and got no credit for exercise.

 

[Mac.80]

I’m a long-haul airline pilot, operating across 21 time zones. Here’s my trick: I just work out without worrying about the rings. They work great most of the time. When they don’t, the exercise I’ve completed is just a beneficial to me!

 

[millerj123]

I’m a long-haul airline pilot, operating across 21 time zones. Here’s my trick: I just work out without worrying about the rings. They work great most of the time. When they don’t, the exercise I’ve completed is just a beneficial to me!

Yeah, sometimes they suck if you are training for something that doesn’t mesh. Still, I hate losing perfect months, longest streak etc, just because of travel.

 

[Duncan68]

Off topic, but I have an issue where I needed to go to bed really early tonight, but can't because I don't have enough stand hours. Yes, this is a textbook case of a first world problem, but it still really frigging sucks. I have a 51 day streak I don't want to break.