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

The girls were abducted off the High Bridge at 2:13 p.m., based on time stamps from Libby's video. —Ron Wilkins, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Nov. 2024

The hackers did not obtain the content of the calls or texts, users' personal information, or the time stamps, AT&T said. —Nathan Bomey, Axios, 12 July 2024

However, inconsistent time stamps and shoddy formatting immediately made people suspicious that the chat had been fabricated — that and the fact that the dialogue was overwrought and unbelievable. —Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024

Injection Surveillance footage shows that a nurse entered the admissions room and administered two injections to a motionless Otieno at 4:40 p.m., according to the video time stamp — at least a minute and a half after deputies first appeared to sense something was wrong. —Samuel Oakford, Washington Post, 26 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1855, in the meaning defined at sense 1