Total time is wrong for Microsoft Solitaire Event Challenges

My experience is similar to the other postings. So, as of today (8/11/2018) the problem remains. The times posted are not for times actually in the game, but are elapsed times from the start of a hand (a game) through to the "continue" button appearance. If you quit a game, go back to home and shut down Solitaire and later come back and start the game again, you will still get the elapsed time from the first time you played that hand. Do they really expect 300,000 players to start an event and not ever have to leave a hand prior to completing the entire event? There should be "pause" and "continue" controls (not the same "continue" as at the end of a hand).

That's my two cents worth.

Yesterday I had a time of 11+ hours for time played on The Hard Road.  I realized that it might be my wifi connection that racks up the extra time. So now I have to remember to disconnect from wifi after closing out the game, before shutting down.  I'm hoping this will help.  I was in the game for about an hour in the am, times were correct, had to shut down and take care of some work for several hours. didn't play again til the evening. Also what can really foul a person up is if when you complete a tournament challenge it says, we're having trouble connecting.... try again or cancel. once you hit cancel, it seems like it thinks you are still connected. (sort of like failing the challenge) doubly frustrating because you already beat it.

It seems to me to keep counting the time if I close down the game after failing on one of the challenges. If I succeed and close down there are no issues, If I fail on one (and then stop because, you know, work) and close bang 10+ hours like today.

So usually I only go as far as hard and then stop if I have to stop playing because of outside factors.

No  - I often play some challenges before bed and then finish the event the next day. I always make sure I complete the challenge successfully before I close down the game and my PC. Then when I complete the challenges the next day it will tally the total time between the first and last challenge of the event as opposed to the total time of the individual challenges. It's a bug.

It seems to me to keep counting the time if I close down the game after failing on one of the challenges. If I succeed and close down there are no issues, If I fail on one (and then stop because, you know, work) and close bang 10+ hours like today.

So usually I only go as far as hard and then stop if I have to stop playing because of outside factors.

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.