Short answer: No—your steps are never lost because of Daylight Saving Time (DST).
Healthy Cities is designed to handle time changes automatically. Here’s how it works:
How We Count Your Steps
Steps are always tracked by calendar date (like “March 15, 2025”), not by hours in the day.
Your fitness data is processed in your local timezone, so the app knows whether you’re in a place that observes DST.
When you sync, the system pulls in all the calendar dates between your last sync and today.
Why the DST Concern Exists?
In the spring, when clocks “spring forward,” there are only 23 hours in the day.
In the fall, when clocks “fall back,” there are 25 hours in the day.
That can sound like you might lose or gain time for steps—but that’s not how our system works.
What Actually Happens
Even if the number of hours changes, Healthy Cities uses timezone-aware processing to keep everything accurate.
Steps are added up by date, not by duration.
That means whether a day has 23, 24, or 25 hours, your totals stay the same.
💡 Example: If you walk 5,000 steps on March 9, the day clocks “spring forward,” all 5,000 steps will still appear under March 9. The shorter day doesn’t change your total.
Summary
You won’t lose steps during Daylight Saving Time.
Healthy Cities is designed to make sure every step you take gets counted on the correct date, no matter what the clock says.