station's build date is the build date of last station piece

[DorpsGek]

alocritani opened the ticket and wrote:

the station's build date displayed by the land info tool is the build date of last station piece.
so if you add a new truck bay or even you make longer a platform the build date of entire station is changed

Reported version: Version?
Operating system: All

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[DorpsGek]

Rubidium wrote:

This variable would always be wrong, but least wrong when it is the last built section; if I build a station and completely tear it down, and rebuild it; having the build date to list the construction of the first version is wrong.

We could ofcourse opt to be obnoxiously specific about what the date means: "Date at which the last construction or rebuilt at this station took place". But that bloats the interface for no good reason.

We actually need to update the build date as it's used by NewGRFs and TTDPatch/OpenTTD have behaved for a decade like this, thus changing it would break quite a few NewGRFs. Even then it would be wrong given the former example.

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[DorpsGek]

Rubidium closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Won't fix

Documented in r21828

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