Total time is wrong for Microsoft Solitaire Event Challenges

I wish I could say this is an isolated event but it isn't.  There are some days I will stretch my play over the course of the day.  Do the Expert first and come back and do the easiest games later.  No matter the order, some days it seems my place and time elapsed are fine.  Other days, I might play for 30 minutes and totally close out the game, close out the program or may even lose the game and  hit the home button.    Today as an example I had a 4th place position based on my score and total time played was 24 minutes plus or minus.  Just went back to play and my time logged is over 5 hours.  WTF!  I'm really tired of it.  Especially since I pay good money for the subscription.

Somebody Fix It.  Or tell me what I am doing wrong.

The timer for each dealt hand is generally okay, but the problem is that the time posted for the next deal is based on the last deal when the game is returned to Home and exited between games. This gives the effect of adding elapsed time to the next deal.

I just played 20 hands of the event in just over an hour and 20 minutes and then exited to Home and then exited Solitaire. I went to lunch and ran an errand. I came home, started Solitaire and the event and looked at the Leaderboard. My time was still correct. I played my 21st game and it was completed in 2 minutes and 31 seconds. I then looked at the Leaderboard again, and now my time was displayed as over 2 and half hours, affecting my placement on the Leaderboard.

This is clearly a bug and is easily correctable. If it is true that 200,000 or more players participate in each event, then it is unfortunate that Microsoft doesn't address this long-standing issue. Like many players, I am challenged to achieve a high final ranking, but this bug defeats that possibility unless I start the event and plug on with every one of the thirty (sometimes fewer) hands dealt.

It is bush league scoring.

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.

it just is pretty unfair, it must be forbidden to have a good night sleep or take a flight or have a dinner. You're supposed to play the event just in one time...

No...….it should count the time PLAYED IN THE EVENT

This seems to be an ongoing problem.  Hopefully Microsoft can do something to resolve this. I now check the times while I'm playing and while there aren't as many hours added, the times are still off from what I'm reading on solve times.  I also disconnect my tablet from the internet so that it really can't run the game the same way when I'm not playing. Seems to have helped, but won't work on a PC.