How To Change The Clock On A Fitbit

How to change the time on a Fitbit

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Want to make sure your wearable fitness tracking technology is in sync with you? (Picture: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Fitbits are increasingly popular wearable watches that keep you informed on how much exercise you're doing as you go about your day.

Highly sophisticated technology? Yes. Simple to set up? Not necessarily.

Some users are finding it difficult to work out how to set the date and time correctly on a Fitbit. Others want to switch from a 24 hour to a 12 hour clock format.

Here's how you can do it…

Make sure you know how to work your Fitbit (Picture: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Basically what you need to do is reset your time zone so your Fitbit knows where it is.

There are four different ways to reset your Fitbit time zone, depending on whether you're doing it via the Fitbit app for IOS (iPhone), Android (Samsung), Windows 10 or via the FitBit.com dashboard.

For IOS

From the Fitbit app dashboard, tap the Account icon
TapAdvanced Settings
Under Time Zone, turn off theSet Automatically option
Tap Time Zone and select the correct time zone
Sync your tracker

For Android

From the Fitbit app dashboard, tap the Account icon
TapAdvanced Settings
Turn off theAutomatic time zone option
Tap Select time Zone and select the correct time zone
Sync your tracker

For Windows 10

From the Fitbit app dashboard, tap or click the Account icon
Tap or clickAdvanced Settings
Tap or clickTime Zone
Turn off theAuto option and select the correct time zone
Sync your tracker

From Fitbit.com dashboard

Log into your fitbit.com dashboard and click the gear icon
ChooseSettings >Personal Info
UnderAdvanced Settings, findTimezone and choose your time zone. Time zones offset by the half hour are not supported
ClickSubmit and sync your tracker

How to change to a 12 hour or 24 hour clock

Log into your fitbit.com dashboard and click the gear icon
ChooseSettings >Personal Info
UnderAdvanced Settings, findClock Display Time and select whether you want the time shown in 12-hour or 24-hour clock units
ClickSubmit and sync your device

And voila!

You and your Fitbit are in the same time zone.

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