Did Daylight Savings count my calories twice?

[MDThalmann]

This is a weird question for a reason.. I can not think of any reason other than the clock playing games on me that my calories and distance for the day seems to have doubled.

I live in Arizona. We don't observe Daylight savings time (it's really quite wonderful), but i just got a new phone after my screen cracked and it was set to Mountain Time Zone instead of Arizona Time Zone (which is its own time zone as we spend half the year in Mountain and half in Pacific) so my alarms woke me up at 4:15 instead of 5:15 and my wife yelled at me for ruining her sleep...

I knew what the problem was so I quickly updated my time zone and went about my business.

After I left the gym i looked at my tracker and it had me at 99 floors, 5,000 calories burned and about 6 miles traveled, with 20K Steps. my workout that was tracked accounted for 850 calories and about 3K steps.

did anyone else experience anything similar or does anyone know if this is something that can be corrected?

[Julia_G]

Hi, @MDThalmann, yes, it sounds like that was what happened to you.   

Some Fitbits were affected by the time change meaning that their data did not reset at midnight as expected.  Once this has happened there is no way to delete the duplicate data.  Even the Fitbit reps can't do that for you.

Everything should be okay at midnight tonight and everything should be back to normal tomorrow.  Fitbit often recommends giving your tracker a restart when this happens.  This will NOT change your data, and is probably not strictly necessary, but is a good precautonary step to make sure your Fitbit is ready for the usual midnight reset tonight.