Comment # 3 on bug 1227367 from Dominique Leuenberger

the VLC Qt plugin is the same on PM as is in Factory.
VLC qt UI indeed has the DATE & TIME added to the UI (not specific to PackMan),
but also the version on OBS/Factory

sudo zypper in vlc-qt-3.0.21-3.1 (Current version in Factory as of now)
vlc

Go to help/about, then click the 'version' string right under the VLC media
player header (it's toggling between Version and Build Date)

Date date/time printed there is exactly the date/time of the last changelog
entry (Jun 27 2024 13:54:03) which is expected and implies SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
works as intended

(I could imaging that the OBS/build script version in use is different than OBS
and the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH feature is not yet live on PM's OBS instance - but
that's just a wild guess. In any case, I agree with Bernhard about WORKSFORME)