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An instance of temporal status is the collective ascription to a temporal entity of a formal association to a timespan. The substance of the temporal status is the communal attribution of a defined association type between the designated temporal entity and the timespan. As opposed to connections created between temporal entities and timespans through their passage through space and time, e.g.: the timepsan of birth being a property of the birth event of an individual, timespan statuses are created de jure rather than de facto and create a socially recognized connection between a temporal entity and a timespan regardless the real or known spatiotemporal history of that object. For example, documentation may record a time of validity for a temporal, such as the holding of a property right status, or a final submission date for a competition. In these cases the timespan pointed to is of direct interest to and related to the temporal entity in question but not as its spacetime definition, but rather as an associated social atttribution of temporality to the temporal entity.

Instances of temporal status are recognizable through evidence of community members adopting the intentional stance of so recognizing this status, as observable from direct witnesses, through the reports of competent observers or through evidence of a declarative act initiating this status.

Instances of temporal status may come to be through a formal process such as a declarative act of such definition, or may have arisen through habit, fiat or be of unknown origin. Instances of locative status may end either though a formal process, such as a new declarative act, or may simply fade out of use, be eliminated by fiat or be of unknown reason.

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