I have been monitoring my progress on MCM1 for a while to see if I have time to make it to 50 years. I am crunching MCM1 exclusively at this time. I have a spreadsheet which gives me the number of seconds I accumulate each day and tracks the progress toward my goal. On July 13 my total time on this project went from 42:086:23:42:55 to 42:130:10:29:39 which is a gain of 3,754,004 seconds. Under the daily records I showed a total of 0:042:17:37:10 which computes to 3,692,230 seconds. The difference is 65,821 seconds of credit which I do not know where it came from. To double check I looked at all the units which validated for me on July 13. The total of 160 units tallied exactly with the number listed in the daily record. I checked the accumulated cpu time for those 160 units and got 3,692,227.929 seconds. (The difference of about 2 seconds from the official daily total is due to rounding.)
My question is: Where did the extra 65821 seconds (about 18.28 hours) come from ?
I started tracking this on July 1 and this is the first time it has not come out correctly. So far I am baffled. I like the extra time, but would prefer to get it legitimately.
Cheers