Originally Posted by
Iolanthe
All paused production buildings will run to just before they actually *produce*, that's normal. If you buff them before you wake them and give the buff a minute to take affect before clicking the "Work" button you'll get the buffed output. So unless something else is hinky with the timers you can pause a Cemetery (or other building,) go away for however long, come back, buff it, wait a minute, unpause it and get the extra buff-Pumpkins (or other resource.)
Last year there was a bug in the Cemeteries that kept randomly resetting the timers which made the smaller ones near impossible to buff but that was a bit different and more like the vanished 8.