My SETI statistics graph in the BOINC Manager has lately decided to connect its red line from the latest statistical point to some imaginary zero point five-plus months from now. Is this a BOINC or a SETI phenomenon? If BOINC, how do I fix it? Thank you for any advice you can render.

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It's usually caused by at one point having the computer clock being far off the normal beat and then doing an Update or having an automated contact with the scheduler. That 'far out' time point is then recorded.

You ought to be able to edit your statistics_setiathome.berkeley.edu.xml file and take out the offensive time point. Find the value of <day>xxxxxxxxxx.000000</day> that's the highest, that'll be the culprit.

The value there is Unix time, you can fill in the values in a conversion page like this one.

Do make sure you exit BOINC completely (not just BOINC Manager, but everything) before you fiddle with this.
Open the statistics_*.xml file in Notepad.
Then take out the whole offending section from its <daily_statistics> tag to its </daily_statistics> tag.
Save the statistics* file (Just File->Save).
Restart BOINC.

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