---
title: join.time() function
description: >
  `join.time()` joins two table streams together exclusively on the `_time` column.
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    name: join.time
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    identifier: join/time
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flux/v0/tags: [transformations]
introduced: 0.172.0
---

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`join.time()` joins two table streams together exclusively on the `_time` column.

This function calls `join.tables()` with the `on` parameter set to `(l, r) => l._time == r._time`.

##### Function type signature

```js
(
    <-left: stream[{A with _time: B}],
    as: (l: {A with _time: B}, r: {C with _time: D}) => E,
    right: stream[{C with _time: D}],
    ?method: string,
) => stream[E] where B: Equatable, D: Equatable, E: Record
```

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## Parameters

### left

Left input stream. Default is piped-forward data (<-).



### right
({{< req >}})
Right input stream.



### as
({{< req >}})
Function that takes a left and a right record (`l` and `r` respectively), and returns a record.
The returned record is included in the final output.



### method

String that specifies the join method. Default is `inner`.

**Supported methods:**
- inner
- left
- right
- full


## Examples

### Join two tables by timestamp

```js
import "sampledata"
import "join"

ints = sampledata.int()
strings = sampledata.string()

join.time(left: ints, right: strings, as: (l, r) => ({l with label: r._value}))

```

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#### Output data

| _time                | _value  | label       | *tag |
| -------------------- | ------- | ----------- | ---- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | -2      | smpl_g9qczs | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:10Z | 10      | smpl_0mgv9n | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | 7       | smpl_phw664 | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:30Z | 17      | smpl_guvzy4 | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:40Z | 15      | smpl_5v3cce | t1   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | 4       | smpl_s9fmgy | t1   |

| _time                | _value  | label       | *tag |
| -------------------- | ------- | ----------- | ---- |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z | 19      | smpl_b5eida | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:10Z | 4       | smpl_eu4oxp | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:20Z | -3      | smpl_5g7tz4 | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:30Z | 19      | smpl_sox1ut | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:40Z | 13      | smpl_wfm757 | t2   |
| 2021-01-01T00:00:50Z | 1       | smpl_dtn2bv | t2   |

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