Total time is wrong for Microsoft Solitaire Event Challenges

Today I got 9:45:35 for solving the 20 games of the event, thats impossible. Of course that what happened was that I started a game and then I had to close the game on a rush to attend to something urgent. I returned to solitaire 8 hours later... guess what happened...

I once had a similar issue when I was on an airport and had to board the plane and on a rush closed the laptop (it entered hibernation), when I resumed the computer... the game was still counting the time, so the specific challenge had a terrible time.

I have repeatedly had the same experience and it just happened again!  It is so infuriating!

I was playing today's Tournament and was one game from completing it.  I suddenly had to stop playing because of a household problem.  I shutdown the game and come back later.  I checked the time and it says I have been playing for over 9 hours!  Of course, I hadn't.

People keep posting this problem but there appears to be no solution.  It just ruins the game for you when this happens.

I did some investigation and noticed one interesting thing.  I shut down the game then go to Task Manager.  It still shows the game as running even when I have it completely closed!  So now I also kill the Microsoft Solitaire task.  That seemed to take care of the issue AND I did not do that today.  Is that why I get 9 hours?  Some background process that does not quit?

I do not know if this is a solution - i just mention my observation.  For all I know, it is installing updates.  If someone from Microsoft has another explanation, I would like to hear it.

It's not just that anymore. The times I play in game are inflated. Yesterday I had six minutes in game time and it added up to 12 minutes and just kept compounding from there.  I'm pretty certain it's doing that to other players from the times I see on the leaderboards.  It frustrates and disgusts me that MS cannot keep track of the time.  Some day maybe I'll hit #1 but it won't be possible until the times are correctly recorded.  Some times I have my suspicions about players that can do 30 solitaires in under 60 minutes.

I had the same problem today. Logged off, shut the computer down, I didn't even have a game open when I left.

When I returned about 5:45 hours later I was on 54 minutes with 2 games left to play and the current leader on 1:18. I played both the last 2 games well within the time that I needed to win the group but the time that the game gave me was 6:47:24... ie the timer had kept running even though I was logged off and didn't even have an open game!

I have also noticed that since the last Windows update, the timer running on the screen has been running slow. This is particularly noticeable when playing the timed version of Pyramid, where my scores are now consistently to high because it gives me too much time.

I've continued playing and noticed that sometimes that is the case and sometimes it is not.  Now I check my time on the leaderboard as I play to see if it is reasonably accurate. Since I usually play to challenge myself, it's not a big issue. But it is inconsistent.

I just tried the game again and the same results except that it is MUCH better although still not correct.  I played 3 games.  5:21, 2:57 and 1:58  The total that the game got was 10:19 but if you add them up you actually get 10:16.  Still not quite right.