"Time is the corkboard to which we pin the events of our lives."
Date and time stamps are essential for perfect memory for they add a useful and universally accepted dimension to the indexing and searching features of our mind. No to mention software based search "engines" (which as <cough> McLuhan </cough> would consider, being as they are part of the Internet's makeup, an extension of the human mind...)
(Thank you Sniffles for reminding me of this concept - extension of our minds -, by way of your posting about Spam.)
