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  • noun An identifier attached to a record used to help determine sequence of events, by representing the date the event occurred.

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Examples

  • Given that the datestamp is 4/1/2005, I'm guessing this may be a spoof.

    Boing Boing: March 27, 2005 - April 2, 2005 Archives 2005

  • On an image depicting "Obama's Last Day," there was an accompanying datestamp: "January 20, 2017."

    The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For August 5, 2011 2011

  • Hey, is there a reason the subject line of this post says January, but the datestamp is today?

    February 16, 2010 annathepiper 2010

  • One of my first charges was to revamp the workshop training "feedback" structure, which is currently a piece of paper with a 1994 datestamp that asks lots of "touchy-feely" questions and is used for absolutely nothing.

    How effective is your learning evaluation? Godfrey Parkin 2005

  • There's something that'll datestamp this party for all eternity.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Alistair Myles 2005

  • There's something that'll datestamp this party for all eternity.

    Back pages Alistair Myles 2005

  • I would like to display the timestamp of when the file being displayed was last modified. but I was wondering if it's possible to pull the selected file's 'modified' datestamp from the CSV table using a similar method.

    AutoHotkey Community 2010

  • -- [[User: Annew | annew]] 08: 01, 6 June 2010 (UTC)::: Oops - I forgot to tell you that you add your name and datestamp by hitting the signature icon just above the edit box - second from the right.

    KDE UserBase - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • * NEW* to the title if it's been updated in the past 'X' days. but I was wondering if it's possible to pull the selected file's 'modified' datestamp from the CSV table using a similar method.

    AutoHotkey Community 2010

  • Tomer, the Fedora 10 datestamp on the download of Firefox 3.0.8 was 18: 36 on 27th March, which is impressively close to the 13: 36 27th March timestamp on the Linux binary download from ftp. mozilla.org.

    Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more 2009

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