diff --git a/ckMseed/LibTrace.py b/ckMseed/LibTrace.py
index bfb488364873d129047e18f0deeb8d44aa174a5a..c85967afc68711bbb2f53698f67c2ea1666d5f42 100644
--- a/ckMseed/LibTrace.py
+++ b/ckMseed/LibTrace.py
@@ -124,6 +124,15 @@
 # convert to py3
 # Bug fix: In Writeblk200/201/300/310/320/390/395/500 when unpack inblk to
 #   variables with time (Year, Day, Hour, Min, Sec, junk, Micro)
+#
+##########################
+# modification
+# version: 2022.1.0.0
+# author: Omid Hosseini
+#
+# Change the versioning scheme
+##########################
+
 
 import os
 import struct
@@ -1707,7 +1716,7 @@ class Segy(futils):
 #########################################################
 if __name__ == "__main__":
 
-    VERSION = "2008.204"
+    VERSION = "2022.1.0.0"
     filecnt = 0
     # based on traverse routine in "python standard library", Lundh pg 34