I have my machines set up to save the stats from installation forward, not just one month, I find it's kind of fun to see how things have gone since it was installed. Well, I had a BIOS issue on a machine that had a power problem while I was away, it booted up and said I had to go into the BIOS to set something or other.

Well, I went in and just basically saved and rebooted it, not thinking to check the date on it before doing so, and when it booted up, and BOINC came up, my nice neat chart on that machine, instead of just showing for the last year or so, now goes back to 2000, and all the correct history is smashed along the right side of the graph, impossible to really read properly. I of course immediately went and changed it to the proper date, but the damage had been done by that point.

Does anyone know where this information is stored, and is it possible to go in and nuke the 2000 dates in the file without corrupting it, pretty much bringing it back to just displaying the real information like it did before this mistake?

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The host statistics is kept in the statistics_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml file in the BOINC directory. The date is written as a Modified Julian Date. So if you use one of the MJD to regular date converters online, you can figure out which entries are from 2000. Then just snip them out and save the file. Do this when not running BOINC of course.

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Thanks Keith, I will give it a shot tomorrow when I get back to the shop.

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