My question is pretty simple. 
Can I change the time of day that the cards are renewed without retroactively messing up my learning streak. I am currently on a 40+ day streak, and my cards refresh at 6am.
I want to change this time to 1am, however, I have often reviewed my cards at 2 or 3am in the past month, so this completely destroys my streak and makes my grid super spotty 
Is there any way to change it from 6am to 1am without retroactively messing up my stats?
Best,
No, I donât think so. Itâs a settings that the system uses to interpret timestamps across the board, so if you move the line, you move the line, and everything gets interpreted that way.
Or are you trying to fix or game something else?Is there a reason why you want to change it to 1am? Are you an early riser now?
Thats exactly it, yeah haha. I had a period of late-night shifts at work around two weeks ago, where I would do that daysâ anki at about 3am, sometimes even 5am. Now, I follow a more ânormalâ schedule with early work and get up at around 4, and Iâd love to do my anki before i leave in the morning, but I am also a total streak-freak, and would hate to see the number confirming my consistency vanish 
Is there a time between 1a and 6a that might suit both of your needs â realistic next-day and streak-maintaining?
Nope, sadly not:( Moving it back to 5am creates a couple of holes about a week back.
Have you tried different times to see what they do to your streak? It moves the start time of âtomorrowâ â but also of âtodayâ and âyesterdayâ â so your off-hour reviews might just shift with it.
Iâm not sure I understand this haha, but moving the time back one hour breaks the streak, moving it forwards one hour also breaks it. It seems shift work doesnât only destroy your sleep schedule, but also the anki streaks 
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If it really is not possible in the current version, I would absolutely love the addition of a checkbox or something similar in a future version, where changing the âtime of daily resetâ only affects the current day + in the future, if that is possible. These kinds of small QOL-features really make all the difference; I think people doing shift work, as well as traveling I could imagine, who care deeply about their streaks, would really appreciate the addition. Or at the very least, I would.
Unhelpful rant/take incoming: if the potential of breaking a streak becomes concerning in any way, said streak stops being a QOL feature and is actually a net negative imo
I say this as a reformed streak-freak who once would go so far to save it by resetting the clock on ankidroid. 14 months sober 
Thatâs a totally fair take, and I appreciate the input! 
I donât think I can disguise as completely âsoberâ, as I obviously made this thread to begin with haha, however I also mostly just enjoy the simple pleasure of seeing every box this year colored in, a kind of childlike joy in being consistent with a study, despite a chaotic everyday life 
(which also provides more motivation to keep it up!)
Of course, my original question was just wondering whether or not there existed a quick feature that I had missed. I personally think it would be a welcome addition, but of course, itâs not the end of the world
I assume youâve tried the earlier times too (4a through 1a)? Moving it 1 hour might make a hole, but moving it another hour might cover that hole up. It might make a different hole too, but thatâs why it might be worth trying all of them! 
There isnât a feature like that (and there isnât likely to be one), but 
there is another way to get around this. You can set your next-day start to the ârightâ time, leave it there, and paper over those holes with a little time-machine magic.
There isnât a feature like that (and there isnât likely to be one), but there is another way to get around this.
This worked amazingly. All I needed Thanks!
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