Thanks for your tip, but it only works halfway, the number of turns to research my technologies is still not updated in the Trade screen.

And even if the durations were then updated, the user is there to have fun playing the game, not to do a lot of manipulation to make the game work.

Have you ever heard of the concept of "fighting the user interface", if I have to do a whole bunch of manipulation for it to work properly, I'm not fighting other factions, I'm fighting the user interface.  

After all these years, the game still seems to be in beta state from the point of view of the realization.

Yeah, I'm not holding my breath sadly. The 4.0 announcement post makes it sound like the structural update for easier modding is the main focus. Which is all well and good, but to me personally, bugs are always top priority. Fixing them should always come before everything else. But I'd bet money that no more than a handful, at most, of the flood of bugs being posted on this forum lately will be tackled, sigh. Props to the guy doing all that posting though! Much respect.