Tidssat

Tidssat is a term used in Swedish-language contexts to describe an item that has been assigned a timestamp, indicating the moment when the item was created, modified, or deemed relevant. It functions as an adjective to denote that a record or object carries a time reference.

Etymology and meaning: Tidssat is formed from the Swedish words tid (time) and satt (set or placed). In common IT and data-management usage, it signals that a time value has been attached to the item, as opposed to lacking any temporal information. The related noun for the time value is typically tidsstämpel (timestamp).

Applications and scope: Tidssat appears in database records, data pipelines, document management systems, logs, and version-control workflows. Being tidssat enables temporal queries, historical reconstruction, auditing, and reproducibility of analyses. It often coexists with explicit time fields such as created_at, updated_at, or valid_from, which specify the nature of the timestamp.

Relation to other concepts: Tidssat is closely linked to, but distinct from, tidsstämpel. While a tidsstämpel is the actual time marker, tidssat describes the state of an item as having that time marker. In practice, many systems use explicit timestamp fields to avoid ambiguity about which event the timestamp represents (creation, modification, validity).

See also: timestamp, tidsstämpel, temporal databases, data provenance, audit trail, version control.