[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: The history of VST changes by versions

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Matt Gilarde

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[quote user="George Potemkin"]By the way, _File._Last-Change returns 463860476 that means "Sep 12, 1984 18:07:56" for all VST tables regardless from their versions. 1984 is the year of the first Progress commercial release (V2) but VSTs were originally added in V8.2 (Apr 28, 1997). Is it some secret date inside Progress like Chip Ziering's birthday?[/quote] The comment on that value says "date/time of last schema change set in empty database by the scdbg utility. it is 9/12/84 2PM." The date was chosen in 1991 or earlier, but the source control system doesn't go back far enough to determine exactly when it came into existence. My guess is that the developer needed a value so they spit out the current time and used it.

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