How Can You Tell What Time Someone Uploaded A Youtube Video

Videos on YouTube are simply showing the upload engagement, but non the verbal time of upload. This can be important to find the original uploader of a video, and also helps to avoid confusion and wrong claims about the upload date. The most prominent example for this was the fake claim by Russian authorities that the chemical weapons assault in Syria from August 21, 2013, was staged, since some of the videos showed an upload date of August 20.

Detailed Instance Study: Syrian arab republic Chemical Weapons Attack: Debunking Russian federation's Fake Merits About Video Upload Date

Step 1: Excerpt the exact time using the YouTube Data Viewer

The YouTube Data Viewer allows to extract the verbal upload time of a video (among other details). Simply copy and paste the video link into the appropriate field to excerpt the details. The video of the White House Rally was published on November seven, 2013, ix:53pm:

Step two: Convert the time (UTC) into local time zone

Delight notation: This timestamp is in Coordinated Universal Standard Fourth dimension (UTC). In our case, we must convert it into Eastern Standard Time (EST) to find out the fourth dimension when it was uploaded in Washington, DC (the place of the protest). I am using a simple time zone converter to practise this. I plug in 9:45pm (it only allows me to selection the fourth dimension in 15 minute intervals, so I cannot enter exactly 9:53):

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Washington, DC is 5 hours behind UTC. The video was thus uploaded in the afternoon of Thursday, Nov seven, 2013:

UTC ( ) Thursday, 7 November 2013, 21:45:00
UTC Washington DC (United statesA. – Commune of Columbia) Thursday, 7 November 2013, sixteen:45:00 EST UTC-v hours