SSIS timestamps

Question

Can anyone provide details on what the three of these mean?

• System::ContainerStartTime
• System::CreationDate
• System::StartTime

The documentation for these three is virtually non-existent.

Answer 1

ContainerStartTime is the timestamp for when a task's immediate parent container (such as a Sequence Container or a For Each Loop) has started executing.

CreationDate is whenever the package was created.

StartTime is the time that the package began executing.

As described here.