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.

I checked the time I had with one challenge remaining and I had 1:44 to finish the challenge and take over first place ahead of every other player.  I finished the challenge in 1:19, but I was shown as coming in second place - 2 seconds behind the same time that I had just looked at.  What a crock!  I have also noticed that as you progress during the challenge, it will hold the scores back for some of the other players allowing your score total to surpass them, then all of a sudden it shows that they completed 9 or 10 challenges in 30 or so minutes when it was no there just 2 minutes earlier.

I have the same issue as everyone else. My time in today's event is showing around 9.5 hours, which is utterly wrong. I did a few challenges, went to bed (after closing the app) and then finished the event. Hate this glitch. Is anyone from Microsoft Games actually working on it? The original poster has no meaningful response from them and it's been over a year.

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.

If you retry, the timer starts from zero. But, when you finish the time added for this challenge is the total time used of all your attempts for the challenge not just the last one.