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Timestamp

This is a temporal type used in Stencila Schema for exact points in time.

Although analogous to date-time concepts elsewhere, it exists separately in Stencila Schema because timestamps are heavily used for execution events, provenance, and document modification tracking. Modeling them explicitly clarifies their role as event times rather than general-purpose date-time metadata.

See properties such as executionEnded, lastModified, and other timestamp-bearing metadata throughout the schema.

Analogues

The following external types, elements, or nodes are similar to a Timestamp:

  • Unix timestamp: Closest external analogue, though Stencila stores the epoch offset together with explicit timeUnit rather than assuming seconds.

Properties

The Timestamp type has these properties:

NameDescriptionTypeInherited from
valueThe time, in timeUnits, before or after the Unix Epoch (1970-01-01T00:00:00Z).Integer-
timeUnitThe time unit that the value represents.TimeUnit-
idThe identifier for this item.StringEntity

Related

The Timestamp type is related to these types:

Bindings

The Timestamp type is represented in:


This documentation was generated from Timestamp.yaml by docs_types.rs.

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