It took you 15 seconds because its a terrible example, _around time Y_ is doing insane lifting of this concept. Then "based on other information" okay so some other information is enabling this.

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Hizonner 11 hours ago | parent [-]

It turns out that in reality, I usually know both "around time Y" and "other information". You're going to narrow me down from 10 accounts to 1, or from 100 to 10.

	▲	bricss 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In huge number of cases you will have timestamps in the payload anyway, since most db records will have unredacted createdOn, updatedOn fields for display in the UI.