# Assign time to a timestep

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/assign-time-to-a-timestep/3505
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [February 5, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/assign-time-to-a-timestep/3505 "2020-02-05T01:20:01Z")
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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/assign-time-to-a-timestep/3505/2 "2020-02-05T02:27:54Z")

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You can specify it in a .pvd file.

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