I've noticed during the last 10 days or so some significant differences between when I upload a completed WU and when SETI says it has received the file. Here's my last several uploads:

The Date Uploaded is from my log; the Date Received is from my Results page, and the Delay is the rounded-off difference between the two in hours.

  Result     Work Unit Date Uploaded (UTC) Date Received (UTC) Delay (Hours)
  26345073   7044074     1/3/05 18:02    1/6/05 13:35          67
  27297618   7269060      1/6/05 6:55    1/6/05 13:35           4
  27297621   7269066      1/7/05 4:24     1/9/05 4:11          48
  27297638   7269072     1/7/05 18:22     1/9/05 4:11          34
  27932578   7414170     1/8/05 10:36     1/9/05 4:11          17
  27932599   7412652     1/8/05 21:57     1/9/05 4:11           6
  27932581   7412648     1/9/05 12:20    1/12/05 5:22          65
  28537740   7540626     1/10/05 4:09    1/12/05 5:22          49
  28537763   7540633    1/10/05 20:45    1/12/05 5:22          32
  28537766   7540631     1/11/05 4:18    1/12/05 5:22          25
  28537743   7540628    1/11/05 11:12    1/12/05 5:22          17
  28539091   7540952    1/11/05 21:44    1/12/05 5:22           7
  28539094   7540954     1/12/05 5:14    1/12/05 5:22           0
  28539098   7540955    1/12/05 15:09    1/14/05 3:43          36

It appears that my uploads are just going into a "holding area" and then SETI is "receiving" every two or three days. Is this caused by the server problems the last two weeks or so, or ???

C

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Completion time is based on when the results are reported, not when uploaded. If you look at completed WU's in BOINCs Work tab, you'll see they're "Ready to Report". They aren't considered complete until that happens.

EDIT:

Look in the log for messages like:

Sending request to scheduler: http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
Scheduler RPC to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded

Thats when the results get reported.