Extend your troubleshooting: append values to the IIS log ( HttpContext.Current.Response. AppendToLog(string) ).
If not, perhaps enough of the page has been rendered on the client that the AJAX request is actually coming before the end time has been written to the database and it is using the wrong end time.
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