**is there a way to know the date of a transaction by looking at the raw blockchain?** I know that Etherscan and other blockchain explorers have dates for the transactions...but I couldn't find a way to do it via web3 [web3.eth.getTransaction][1], and other transaction related [APIs][2] don't seem to be exposing any Date objects. thanks [1]: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JavaScript-API#web3ethgettransaction [2]: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JavaScript-API