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How Does Time Zone Affect My Challenges?
How Does Time Zone Affect My Challenges?

Learn how time zone impacts your challenge scores in Stridekick

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Written by Stridekick Team
Updated over a week ago

When Will My Challenge Start?

Stridekick challenges will update to started at 12:00 am (midnight) on the first day of the challenge according to the time zone selected by the challenge creator. This may not correspond to midnight in every user's time zone. 

For example: The challenge updates to started at 12:00 am PST. If a user is in EST, this means the challenge will update to started at 3:00 am EST for them. However, any steps this user got from 12:00 am to 3:00 am EST will automatically be scored in the challenge once it updates to started.

When Will My Challenge End?

All Stridekick challenges will end according to the user's specific time zone. Everyone will have until 11:59:59 pm on the final day of the challenge according to their own time zone to collect any final step, distance, and minute totals.

How Does This Impact Scoring?

Although a challenge may update to started at a time that doesn't correspond to midnight for all users, steps each user received from midnight on the start date of the challenge to 11:59:59 pm on the end date of the challenge according to their time zone will be scored into the challenge. This means that all users will have the same amount of time to get their activity in.

Questions?

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