Property 201620 - __unusedTimeA [int]

Information

This timestamp appears to be an abandoned way of setting the legality date. It is set on, generally, one card by name for every expansion, from the HGSS1 era through the BW10 set. Not all sets have a card that carries this property, and it isn’t always set correctly.

Values

‘2013-11-08 HGSS1 #99 PokemonReversal [std]’ ‘2013-11-08 HGSS1 #99 PokemonReversal [ph]’ ‘2010-05-12 HGSS2 #56 Onix [std]’ ‘2010-05-12 HGSS2 #56 Onix [ph]’ ‘2012-05-09 HGSS2 #82 RareCandy [std]’ ‘2012-05-09 HGSS2 #82 RareCandy [ph]’ ‘2010-08-18 HGSS3 #72 Defender [std]’ ‘2010-08-18 HGSS3 #72 Defender [ph]’ ‘2010-11-03 HGSS4 #51 Unown [std]’ ‘2010-11-03 HGSS4 #51 Unown [ph]’ ‘2011-04-25 BW1 #100 Potion [std]’ ‘2011-04-25 BW1 #100 Potion [ph]’ ‘2012-10-05 DV #18 ExpShare [std]’ ‘2011-04-25 TK5B #15 Potion [std]’ ‘2011-04-25 TK5B #23 Potion [std]’ ‘2011-08-31 BW2 #93 GreatBall [std]’ ‘2011-08-31 BW2 #93 GreatBall [ph]’ ‘2013-11-08 BW2 #95 PokemonCatcher [std]’ ‘2013-11-08 BW2 #95 PokemonCatcher [ph]’ ‘2013-11-08 BW2 #95 PokemonCatcher [op]’ ‘2012-05-09 BW5 #100 RareCandy [std]’ ‘2012-05-09 BW5 #100 RareCandy [ph]’ ‘2013-11-08 BW5 #111 PokemonCatcher [std]’ ‘2013-02-06 BW8 #136 Charizard [std]’ ‘2013-11-08 BW10 #83 PokemonCatcher [std]’ ‘2013-11-08 BW10 #83 PokemonCatcher [ph]’ ‘2013-11-08 TK6B #23 PokemonCatcher [std]’ ‘2013-11-08 TK6A #14 PokemonCatcher [std]’

Sorted Values (annotated)

If you sort the values by its professed date, the values look slightly more obvious.

HGSS2 released May 12th, HGSS3 released Aug 18th and HGSS4 released Nov 3rd.

‘2010-05-12 HGSS2 #56 Onix [std]’ ‘2010-05-12 HGSS2 #56 Onix [ph]’ ‘2010-08-18 HGSS3 #72 Defender [std]’ ‘2010-08-18 HGSS3 #72 Defender [ph]’ ‘2010-11-03 HGSS4 #51 Unown [std]’ ‘2010-11-03 HGSS4 #51 Unown [ph]’

BW1 released April 25th, but seemingly accidentally tagged the TK5B trainer kit by accident. TK5B was actually not released until that September. BW2 did indeed release August 31st.

‘2011-04-25 BW1 #100 Potion [std]’ ‘2011-04-25 BW1 #100 Potion [ph]’ ‘2011-04-25 TK5B #15 Potion [std]’ ‘2011-04-25 TK5B #23 Potion [std]’ ‘2011-08-31 BW2 #93 GreatBall [std]’ ‘2011-08-31 BW2 #93 GreatBall [ph]’

BW3 and BW4 are missing. BW5 did release May 9th. Like the above issue with TK5B, we’ve seemingly mistagged RareCandy and brought it forward to May 9th, overwriting its previous release date.

‘2012-05-09 BW5 #100 RareCandy [std]’ ‘2012-05-09 BW5 #100 RareCandy [ph]’ ‘2012-05-09 HGSS2 #82 RareCandy [std]’ ‘2012-05-09 HGSS2 #82 RareCandy [ph]’

DV came out October 5th, and BW8 came out February 6th. BW6 and BW7 are missing.

‘2012-10-05 DV #18 ExpShare [std]’ ‘2013-02-06 BW8 #136 Charizard [std]’

All of the following are release dates for PokemonCatcher, but BW2 came out 2011-08-31, BW5 came out 2012-05-09, BW10 came out 2013-08-14, and XY Trainer Kit came out 2014-03-12.

Seemingly these are all tagged for the release of PokemonCatcher from the Kalos Starter Set, which happened 2013-11-08. However, the KSS copies of those cards themselves are not tagged in this manner.

‘2013-11-08 BW2 #95 PokemonCatcher [std]’ ‘2013-11-08 BW2 #95 PokemonCatcher [ph]’ ‘2013-11-08 BW2 #95 PokemonCatcher [op]’ ‘2013-11-08 BW5 #111 PokemonCatcher [std]’ ‘2013-11-08 BW10 #83 PokemonCatcher [std]’ ‘2013-11-08 BW10 #83 PokemonCatcher [ph]’ ‘2013-11-08 TK6A #14 PokemonCatcher [std]’ ‘2013-11-08 TK6B #23 PokemonCatcher [std]’

The last cards are PokemonReversal from HGSS1, which have been updated with the KSS release date; but there is no Pokemon Reversal card released after HGSS1 #99; why these are tagged is unknown.

‘2013-11-08 HGSS1 #99 PokemonReversal [std]’ ‘2013-11-08 HGSS1 #99 PokemonReversal [ph]’

Conclusions

It seems likely that this was a way of tagging some kind of legality date for re-released cards during this era, but it’s not set very consistently and is not presently the way the game tracks legality of individual cards.