# Resetting the "time" bar to an actual time of day rather than time interval

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**Created:** [July 14, 2023, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/resetting-the-time-bar-to-an-actual-time-of-day-rather-than-time-interval/79918 "2023-07-14T15:49:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trebor](https://forum.audacityteam.org/user_avatar/forum.audacityteam.org/trebor/32/45854_2.png) [@Trebor](https://forum.audacityteam.org/u/Trebor)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/resetting-the-time-bar-to-an-actual-time-of-day-rather-than-time-interval/79918/2 "2023-07-14T17:41:57Z")

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There are free Audacity plugins to show the “actual (recording) time” on a label track …

> [@Adding custom timestamp at the beginning of track](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/adding-custom-timestamp-at-the-beginning-of-track/76101/4):
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> I just checked: the “recording time” plugins work in Audacity 332: they appear in the “Generate” menu, (if you can install them) These plugins need the recording start-time in the file-name to calculate the “real” time at the cursor / or the “real” time for the labels … [record time demo] …

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