: 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)
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: 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
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: 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
The repository also contains time-stamped versions of your code … Jeff Jurvis
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThe time stamp for the video was about 6 p.m., just before police were called by the child. Phyllis Cha, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Aug. 2022 Because the coordinates the company collects included a time stamp, they can be used to identify when a person visited a location.BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022 Police later confirmed that Kuehne sent the images thanks to the camera in the patrol car, which showed the trooper alone in his vehicle with the phone at 4:44 p.m. — the same time stamp as the text messages.Washington Post, 10 June 2021 According to a time stamp on the video, Grier was placed in the patrol car shortly before 1 a.m. on July 15. Artemis Moshtaghian And Justin Gamble, CNN, 30 July 2022 Similar to what the post office uses to sort mail, the massive machine takes a picture of both sides of an envelope, opens it, and records a time stamp. Sam Janesch, Baltimore Sun, 14 July 2022 The Benton County sheriff's office provided the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 42 minutes of security camera footage from the jail courtroom, starting at 6:58 a.m. Friday, according to the video's time stamp. Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 9 July 2022 In the upper right corner of the screen was a time stamp: 5:07 P.M., March 21, 2020. Stephanie May Joyce, Outside Online, 27 Apr. 2021 The video then returns with the time stamp about a minute later with the deputy advancing toward a residence. Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2022 See More