AzureTracesForPacking2020 - VM Create Times?

[smiqbal]

In the AzureTracesForPacking2020 dataset, there are 3414 rows with a starttime of -7157. That would mean these VMs have existed for almost 20 years before the trace logging began. This may just be a logging error/artifact but I wanted to confirm.

[mathgeekcoder]

Thanks for noticing this issue!

Indeed this was my mistake, and caused by missing data. We will update the dataset, but in the meantime you can replace the -7157 entries with -1497 (~4 years).

[smiqbal]

Thank you for the quick response!