time stamp

noun

variants or timestamp

ˈtīm-ˌstamp 

plural time stamps or timestamps

1

: a stamping device used for recording the date and time of day on a document, envelope, etc. (as to indicate when it was received or sent out)

2

a

: an indication of the date and time stamped on a document, envelope, etc.

Problem was, a later check of the time stamp on the motion indicated that it had been filed nearly 40 minutes after Heinrich appeared before Wolf.

—Thanassis Cambanis

b

: an indication of the date and time recorded as part of a digital signal or file (such as an email, digital photograph, radio broadcast, or text message) indicating the time of creation, transmission, etc.

When you share that viral video, it carries a time stamp.

—Cosmopolitan

… highlighted a seeming discrepancy between the timestamps of the phone records and surveillance video, with the surveillance video suggesting the shooting happened a moment or two earlier than the phone records.

—Patrick Kernan

time-stamp

ˈtīm-ˌstamp 

transitive verb

time-stamped; time-stamping; time-stamps

The repository also contains time-stamped versions of your code …

—Jeff Jurvis

Examples of time stamp in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Based on the time stamps we’re given, somehow this conversation takes 15 minutes?! —Emma Soren, Vulture, 3 June 2024

The time stamp became code for the act of smoking weed, and eventually spread beyond the Golden State's borders to none other than The Grateful Dead. —Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2024

However, her hairstyles and nude looks have no time stamp, existing across decades as trending looks 20 years later. —India Espy-Jones, Essence, 31 May 2024

For the police, the Instagram videos were a trail of criminal breadcrumbs around the city, complete with narration, time stamps and footage of his speedometer. —Mike Baker, New York Times, 29 May 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1855, in the meaning defined at sense 1