# Devotee Badge and Timezones, relaxing requirements?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/devotee-badge-and-timezones-relaxing-requirements/144614
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** badges
**Created:** [March 17, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/devotee-badge-and-timezones-relaxing-requirements/144614 "2020-03-17T17:10:01Z")
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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2020, 6:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/devotee-badge-and-timezones-relaxing-requirements/144614/4 "2020-03-17T18:59:21Z")

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> [@fearlessfrog](#):
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> Had a couple of user reports regarding the Devotee badge, that requires 365 days of consecutive logins to gain. The issue seems to be that people on timezones far away from UTC (say, PST +8) have to take that into account that the underlying ‘day’ is in UTC times.

We receive a few support requests about the Devotee badge for exactly this reason. The work around is to grant the badge through the Rails console. Instructions for doing that are given here: [Award a non-custom badge through the console](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-award-a-non-custom-badge-through-the-console/103269).

If there is an easy way to relax the badge’s criteria to allow for a few skipped days, I think that would be a good idea.

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