Changing your time zone to control when cards expire

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Reply #1 - 2009 June 15, 3:52 pm
harusame Member
From: USA Registered: 2009-04-22 Posts: 149

So, your cards are set to expire after their respective time periods at midnight of your time zone by default.  I'd been working this way for a while, doing my reviews first thing and then moving to learning new cards after I'd cleared all of my expired/failed ones.  I felt like it was slowing me down, since I'd lose some of my steam by the time I finished (especially since I've been having big reviews of 90-145 cards lately).  I also began to wonder if I wasn't retaining new cards as well because my brain was already tired from reviewing so many old cards.

Today I got the idea of modifying my "time zone" so that my cards would expire at noon instead of midnight; this way, I could learn new cards, review them until they were in the box I wanted, and then do my reviews after lunch.  I'm already over 1700 cards, so I don't know how much difference it'll make at this point, but I figured it was worth a shot.  Has anyone else modified their "time zone" to change their review time?  Has it helped or hindered you?  Just curious if anyone else has tried this strategy and how it's worked for them.

Reply #2 - 2009 June 15, 3:56 pm
Jarvik7 Member
From: 名古屋 Registered: 2007-03-05 Posts: 3946

Anki has a setting to do this you know.

Reply #3 - 2009 June 15, 4:03 pm
harusame Member
From: USA Registered: 2009-04-22 Posts: 149

Yes, but I haven't really gotten into Anki yet - I prefer to keep my RTK reviews on this site because it's easy to go from reviewing to adding cards to looking at other peoples' stories.  I'll probably move to Anki when I start doing sentence-mining.

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Reply #4 - 2009 June 15, 4:24 pm
welldone101 Member
Registered: 2008-12-21 Posts: 289

I think this feedback thread is a petition to allow such settings to take affect.  Right now the cards expire for everybody everywhere based on server time.  Changing your time zone won't affect your card expiration.

Last edited by welldone101 (2009 June 15, 4:25 pm)

Reply #5 - 2009 June 15, 4:29 pm
harusame Member
From: USA Registered: 2009-04-22 Posts: 149

I'm pretty sure it does - as soon as I moved my time zone ahead twelve hours, my cards for the next day expired right away.

Reply #6 - 2009 June 15, 4:41 pm
ファブリス Administrator
From: Belgium Registered: 2006-06-14 Posts: 4021 Website

Yeah, it should, although I have to adjust also the server timezone setting at different times of the year, it may be off by one hour, if that's the case let me know.

Reply #7 - 2009 June 15, 4:42 pm
harusame Member
From: USA Registered: 2009-04-22 Posts: 149

Well, now that we've got that cleared up, perhaps I should clarify my original post: has anyone modified their time zone on the website to change when their cards expire?

Reply #8 - 2009 June 15, 6:24 pm
welldone101 Member
Registered: 2008-12-21 Posts: 289

My time zone is set to Japan Standard time and my cards expired around 3pm in the afternoon.  I've started using anki as of a couple months ago.  Is this a recent change? or was my browser just not properly sending my time zone.

Reply #9 - 2009 June 15, 6:58 pm
Dustin_Calgary Member
From: Canada Registered: 2008-11-11 Posts: 428

I have been modifying my time zone quite a bit depending on how my days are going for studying.

Sometimes I don't want them to expire until 3 am, other time I want them to expire at 5 or 6 pm instead.
It's really easy to do, and something I kind of stumbled on and love having the option of changing ^^

p.s.  For anyone that doesn't know how, the time zone you want is just in your profile page ^^  easy to go in and change

Last edited by Dustin_Calgary (2009 June 15, 6:59 pm)

Reply #10 - 2009 June 15, 8:01 pm
welldone101 Member
Registered: 2008-12-21 Posts: 289

Dustin_Calgary wrote:

p.s.  For anyone that doesn't know how, the time zone you want is just in your profile page ^^  easy to go in and change

Doh, now you tell me.  Frickin 6 months of badly timed reviews later.  Haha.

Reply #11 - 2009 June 15, 9:19 pm
captal Member
From: San Jose Registered: 2008-03-22 Posts: 677

Jarvik7 wrote:

Anki has a setting to do this you know.

Where? It's not under preferences that I can see.

Reply #12 - 2009 June 16, 3:01 am
ファブリス Administrator
From: Belgium Registered: 2006-06-14 Posts: 4021 Website

jmkeralis wrote:

Well, now that we've got that cleared up, perhaps I should clarify my original post: has anyone modified their time zone on the website to change when their cards expire?

Yes, that is how you do it, there is currently no separate "card expire offset" time, if you will. Setting your exact timezone should let cards expire at your local, midnight time. Push it forward or backward to customize it. The reason for that is the timezone offset is actually not used for anything else yet (on the main site).

Reply #13 - 2009 June 16, 3:05 am
Squintox Member
From: Toronto, Canada Registered: 2008-07-27 Posts: 292 Website

captal wrote:

Jarvik7 wrote:

Anki has a setting to do this you know.

Where? It's not under preferences that I can see.

I think Jarvik is talking about the "review early" feature, of course I may be wrong.

Reply #14 - 2009 June 16, 3:16 am
blackmacros Member
From: Australia Registered: 2009-04-14 Posts: 763

Squintox wrote:

captal wrote:

Jarvik7 wrote:

Anki has a setting to do this you know.

Where? It's not under preferences that I can see.

I think Jarvik is talking about the "review early" feature, of course I may be wrong.

On a mac: Settings-->Deck Properties-->Advanced-->   New day starts at: ____

Reply #15 - 2009 June 16, 5:37 am
Squintox Member
From: Toronto, Canada Registered: 2008-07-27 Posts: 292 Website

blackmacros wrote:

On a mac: Settings-->Deck Properties-->Advanced-->   New day starts at: ____

Hmm, isn't that different? It's used for statistical purposes rather than picking your review time.

Last edited by Squintox (2009 June 16, 5:37 am)

Reply #16 - 2009 June 16, 7:09 am
blackmacros Member
From: Australia Registered: 2009-04-14 Posts: 763

Squintox wrote:

blackmacros wrote:

On a mac: Settings-->Deck Properties-->Advanced-->   New day starts at: ____

Hmm, isn't that different? It's used for statistical purposes rather than picking your review time.

Yeah I think you're right actually. Anki schedules at a more granular level than just day by day (it schedules by the minute I think?) so I guess the concept of having all the cards expire at a specific time doesn't apply so much. But I think that was probably the setting Jarvik was talking about.

Reply #17 - 2009 June 16, 7:50 pm
captal Member
From: San Jose Registered: 2008-03-22 Posts: 677

That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks. I was looking so hard for a way to change the timezone that I didn't see it. (I also have a Mac)

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