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[Kevin_Price]

The Chairman of the Rules Committee (who sits just down the hall from the Department of Redundancy Department) thanks you for bringing this thread to his attention.  His ruling is that it is *not* a record, but it shall henceforth be considered throughout the lands as a "notable curiosity".

-Kevin P, 

in that kind of mood 😋

P.S.  I've only been focusing on the longest time a thread has spent being dormant before being revived, i.e., the longest time gap between *consecutive* posts.  Under that measure, the linked thread tops out at about 15 years.  Interesting that it has 2 other multi-year gaps though.

[GerdW]

Hi Kevin,

again not a new record, but an old thread popping up after (within some minutes) exactly 20 years here…

[cbutcher]

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@GerdW wrote:

Hi Kevin,

again not a new record, but an old thread popping up after (within some minutes) exactly 20 years here…

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If that's not intentional it's a pretty incredible coincidence... And yet, I suspect that is exactly so. (So perhaps not in-credible, but amazing...)

[cbutcher]

Surprise entry from Professor Schor...

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Can-I-exit-a-FOR-loop-before-it-has-completed-its-iterations/td-p/1...

I also saw the title (since it popped into recent posts now) and thought it should be an easy thread to answer, but noted it already had 4 replies. Figured probably done, but opened to read anyway.

Was surprised to discover that it was a 17y/o thread from a time before conditional terminals on For loops...

Another example of an updated answer helping future finders, I think. Although surprised that it was found and reanswered...

[crossrulz]

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@cbutcher wrote:

Surprise entry from Professor Schor...

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Can-I-exit-a-FOR-loop-before-it-has-completed-its-iterations/td-p/1...

I also saw the title (since it popped into recent posts now) and thought it should be an easy thread to answer, but noted it already had 4 replies. Figured probably done, but opened to read anyway.

Was surprised to discover that it was a 17y/o thread from a time before conditional terminals on For loops...

Another example of an updated answer helping future finders, I think. Although surprised that it was found and reanswered...

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Well, that thread was revived by somebody asking a C++ question.  Rolf moved it to the CVI board (https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabWindows-CVI/Re-Can-I-exit-a-FOR-loop-before-it-has-completed-its-iterati....  But the original thread would still be marked as having new content, even though it no longer did.

[Kevin_Price]

Not a new record, but a certain AristosQueue himself just performed a useful 19+ year zombie thread revival...

-Kevin P

[BertMcMahan]

Well if that's not a megavote for not locking then I don't know what is 🙂

[JÞB]

New record?  EDIT[ Apparently not but I had to smile at the snippet in 2020 provided as a reply to a question in 6.i]

17y 6m 12d

At least worth an honorable mention.

[Kevin_Price]

Not a new record, but worthy of mention:

20 years, 2 months, 14 days.

Other fun fact: 2 distinct replies from altenbach separated by more than 22.5 years!  (After pointing out the zombie nature of the thread and playing along anyway.)

-Kevin P

[BertMcMahan]

Another notable mention, AristosQueue necro's an (almost) 18 year old thread:

How can I subtract timestamps to give me a DBL t ime in seconds?