time-stamp

British

verb

to assign an accurate time to (a message, transaction, etc)

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Time-stamp texts to friends and have meeting points and times set in advance.

From Los Angeles Times

The video does not have a date-stamp or time-stamp.

From BBC

There is no time-stamp visible in the recording.

From BBC

Michael chose to revisit that title — though now with a time-stamp, and an exclamation! — for this hit from his second solo album, “Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1.”

From New York Times

A top border official told the judge that all releases — including 167 releases that had been marked in the system as either coming after the order took effect, or showing no time-stamp at all — were in fact processed before the deadline.

From Washington Times

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