How to extend the day past midnight to complete the activities and close the rings

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How to extend the day past midnight to complete the activities and close the rings

If you need to extend your day past midnight to close the activity rings set temporarily the timezone to a timezone farther west. Change the timezone before midnight. Now you can use the additional hours the timezone is shifted relative to your usual timezone to complete the missing activities.

I tested this again during a long distance flight, where the timezone at the destination is shifted by 8 hours relative to my home timezone.

As you can see, watchOS 2.1 will happily give credit for activities for more than 24 hours if you shift the timezone.

At 5pm the watch already showed 25 hours of "Stands", more than one day.

And with the 8hrs offset to my regular timezone I could accumulate 30 stand hours within one day's work:

If you want to extend your day to complete activities this way, don't forget to set the timezone back before you go to sleep, or you might forget the next day that the watch is a few hours off. I would wait to set the timezone back until after receiving the message that all tasks have been completed for the day and set the timezone to the correct time after the next hour.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), 2,8 GHz Intel Core i7, 1TB SSD

Posted on Apr 12, 2016 11:56 AM

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ManSinha

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Apr 12, 2016 12:12 PM in response to léonie

Thanks

What is a body to do if she lives in Hawaii? 😝

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léonie Author

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Apr 12, 2016 12:15 PM in response to ManSinha

If you are living close to the date line you have to be very, very quick to complete the tasks. 🙂 But living in Hawaii is compensating this complication!

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Apr 12, 2016 11:50 PM in response to léonie

Very sneaky of you, leonie!!!! 😉

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léonie Author

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Apr 12, 2016 11:50 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

🙂 I experimented with this, because I did not want the chance for a "perfect year" spoiled by long distance traveling. Traveling west is no problem, because it extends the day when we adjust the timezone, but the shorter days when heading east require planning.

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Apr 13, 2016 5:12 AM in response to léonie

I'm still trying for a perfect week! 😁

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léonie Author

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Apr 15, 2016 11:36 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

Meg St._Clair wrote:

I'm still trying for a perfect week! 😁

The secret is to set the goals not too high. I have set the daily move goal so low, that I accomplish it by simply staying alive and an occasional walk to the fridge or the bathroom. 😁 It is nicer to see "Move goal 1000%" at the end of the day than "Sorry, you missed the move goal".

The 30 minutes exercise are easily accomplished by using the bike to get to work and back every day. The real challenge is the "Stand" goal with a job that keeps me tied to the desk or in meetings all day.

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Apr 15, 2016 12:00 PM in response to léonie

I usually make the Stand goal. And, since they made "Activity" easier with the update, I make that sometimes. I keep thinking about biking the four miles to work but I hate the crazy city traffic. People in my city are only beginning, grudgingly, to accept cyclist.

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léonie Author

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Apr 15, 2016 12:40 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

Cyclists are living dangerous in the cities!

It is not better in my hometown. Most bike lanes are integrated into the sidewalk and the pedestrians keep jumping in front of the bikes. And when cycling on the road the cars do not keep a safe distance when passing cyclists.

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Apr 15, 2016 2:05 PM in response to léonie

My city has a lot of cycling activists. Bike lanes have gotten better, oven separated from the traffic. Timing on stop lights at very some intersections is set up to keep people who are turning right from cutting off cyclists. So, small progress.

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Apr 15, 2016 10:54 PM in response to léonie

So your Watch is not nagging you to raise your Move calorie goal. Mine has nagged me since I got it and it keeps getting higher and higher. No matter how well I do it keeps asking for more so I named my Watch after my doctor who does the same thing. (But actually once Maria got to 770 she quit nagging).

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léonie Author

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Apr 15, 2016 10:56 PM in response to deggie

I should call my watch Maria too!

Once a week my watch is nagging and raising my goal, but I just turn the crown to set it back to the initial value, when asked to confirm the new goal. I want the length of the circles to be relative to a fixed absolute value that I can remember and not relative an ever changing sliding value.

I even received an award for reaching new move goal twice! 😁

The continually raising of the values is a bit annoying and makes it more difficult to use. For example, the distance to my office from my home is roughly 10 kms , and so I want to set the watch to a 10 km bike ride every morning. But depending on the amount of obstacles on the bike lane (parking cars, playing children, dogs on a leash) and construction sites the distance may vary because of the detours and slaloms I have to make. So on the way back, I always have to set the bike ride back to 10 kms, because the watch raised it to the length of the last ride. it would be more helpful if we had a preference setting, that controls the default values. The distance to our place of work or the length of our favorite cycling routes does not increase magically every day. It would not be so bad, if we could operate the watch while keeping the gloves on, or if Siri would understand me across the noise of the traffic, but I can use Siri only indoors.

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