date stamp

Ink chronology marker

A date stamp is a device that prints the current date on documents, or the impression it leaves.

Date stamps mark when paperwork was received, processed, or mailed: The clerk applied a date stamp to the invoice.

The term extends to any recorded date on files, photos, or digital documents: The email's date stamp showed it was sent yesterday.

As a verb, to date-stamp is to mark something with a date.

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calendar · envelope · mail · office · expiration · notary · receipt · postal service · archive · document · imprint · postal · clerk · validity · seal · ledger · bureaucracy · cancel

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temporal specificity

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Lacking temporal marker

dateless · timeless · unmarked · unstamped · blank

type of authentication mark

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Handwritten name for verification

autograph · personal seal · initials · fingerprint · wet signature

Family

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G