The new Zwift island is actually modeled after a real island somewhere in the south Pacific. Strava thinks I was actually riding around said island as opposed to riding my trainer. So there’s a 15 hour time difference between the two places. My training logs are all jacked up because of this issue. So the ride I just finished won’t show up on my Strava training log until sometime tomorrow.
I browsed the Zwift website and I didn’t find much of anything. Strava too.
Anyone encountered this problem and have a fix? I worry I may have caused a rip in the space-time continuum.
I just looked at mine that uploaded to strava. It shows 0330 was when I started my ride when I actually started it at 0930. It hasn’t showed up on my mileage log yet but I think it will be there by tomorrow. I’m not sure why there is the delay with it. I did also notice like you did that it’s a real island in the Pacific.
I beleieve the standard statement is “Working as designed”
Currently Zwift is on said small island, so everything comes off the time there.
reality -
Does it really matter?
I beleieve the standard statement is “Working as designed”
Currently Zwift is on said small island, so everything comes off the time there.
reality -
Does it really matter?
Does it really matter? It’s not a life and death situation but I’d like my workouts to show up when I do them and not 15 hours later.
It’s technically not an issue because, as stated, Zwift literally has to put the island somewhere in the world in order for all of their data and stuff to be essentially recognized by Strava. But the island is like somewhere in the pacific or some crazy place so the time stamp from the island is clearly not in the same time zone as you. So while the time stamp from riding on the island is correct, it’s just not correct to your time zone. I have put in a request to Strava but basically, it ain’t happenin at least anytime soon.
So don’t worry, your fast riding on the island has not caused a time shift - however I will say, the new island reminds me of Lost! I’m expecting Hurley to come flying down in an old blue VW bus screaming out his numbers! haha
The previous island was like that as well but the time difference wasn’t as significant. There is a fix for it although it isn’t quick and easy so I never bothered to do anything about it. It also has to be done for each activity, see the link below. Note that I have not tried this fix so I have no idea if it actually works or not.
Anyone encountered this problem and have a fix? I worry I may have caused a rip in the space-time continuum.
Doesn’t this sort of fall under the category of ‘first world’ problems?
Assuming training is being recorded on a Garmin device, it appears the Fit File tools site linked in the article above, adjusts the date/time directly in the .FIT file for the workout but if using a non-Garmin device that does not utilize the Fit format, then you would one means of addressing the issue would be to export the training file to a GPX formatted file. Write a java or vbscript program to recursively parse/replace/save the xml for date/time values that represent your local time zone values:
I don’t record my trainer rides with a Garmin. I have one of my road bikes permanently affixed to my Wahoo KICKR.
Just for clarification… the workout shows up on my Strava activity list right away. It doesn’t show up on my training log until 15 hours later. Certainly not the end of the world but if there were an easy workaround I’d like to know. Exporting the .gpx and jacking with the code is far more effort than I’m willing to do.
I don’t record my trainer rides with a Garmin. I have one of my road bikes permanently affixed to my Wahoo KICKR.
Just for clarification… the workout shows up on my Strava activity list right away. It doesn’t show up on my training log until 15 hours later. Certainly not the end of the world but if there were an easy workaround I’d like to know. Exporting the .gpx and jacking with the code is far more effort than I’m willing to do.
I hope you’re marking those Zwift rides as trainer rides.
I don’t record my trainer rides with a Garmin. I have one of my road bikes permanently affixed to my Wahoo KICKR.
Just for clarification… the workout shows up on my Strava activity list right away. It doesn’t show up on my training log until 15 hours later. Certainly not the end of the world but if there were an easy workaround I’d like to know. Exporting the .gpx and jacking with the code is far more effort than I’m willing to do.
I hope you’re marking those Zwift rides as trainer rides.
I think you’ll lose a lot of data if you mark Zwift rides as trainer rides.
I don’t worry about my strava rides because I don’t use the strava metrics much so I just let the time be as it is. I do upload my garmin 500 file instead of my zwift file to trainingpeaks. In training peaks I use the metrics and PMC and it drives me crazy that the zwift file is always logged a day late.
