dateline
/ˈdeɪtˌlaɪn/
noun
- A line at the beginning of a news article that shows the date and location where the story was written or reported.
- Journalists always include a dateline to show where the news originated.
- I checked the dateline to see if the report was from yesterday or last week.
- The dateline on the article read 'London, March 15'.
- An imaginary line on the Earth's surface (the International Date Line) where the date changes by one day when crossed.
- Traveling east across the dateline means you lose a day.
- The pilot announced that we would cross the International Dateline during the flight.
- When we crossed the dateline, we suddenly jumped from Tuesday to Wednesday.