Metadata Viewer Sites
Open a metadata viewer site. There are a handful of websites that will show you the metadata of a YouTube video. Metadata is data that refers to the video, which includes the date and time it was uploaded. There are a couple of these websites you can use, and they all function somewhat similarly so which one you use is up to you: MW Metadata YouTube Data Viewer
Navigate to the YouTube video in question. If you don't have the video pulled up already, navigate to it now.
Copy and paste the YouTube video URL into the metadata viewer site. Each site has a field where you can paste a video URL. Press Enter on your keyboard or click the Enter/Submit button on the website once you've entered the YouTube URL. On the YouTube Data Viewer site, you'll also have to submit a three-digit CAPTCHA before you can view a video's metadata.
Locate the video's published date and time. On the MW Metadata site, it'll be under the thumbnail of the video with the tag "Published on". On the YouTube Data Viewer site, it'll be under the thumbnail of the video with the tag "Video Published Date." The timestamp listed is the exact time the video was uploaded. On YouTube Data Viewer, the time will automatically be converted to your local timezone, but on MW Metadata the time will be displayed in GMT. Click the Convert button to pull up a timezone converter (though you'll have to enter the timestamp yourself). Both websites display the timestamps in a 24-hour format. If you aren't sure how to convert a 24-hour timestamp into a 12-hour timestamp, check out this wikiHow article.
InVID Extension
Install the InVID extension. This browser extension is intended to help verify images and videos for journalists or other internet users when fact-checking. However, it's only available for Chrome or other Chromium-based browsers (like Opera). Download the extension from InVID.
Navigate to the YouTube video in question. If you don't have the video pulled up already, navigate to it now.
Click the InVID extension button in your browser. It's in the upper-right corner. If you didn't pin the InVID extension to your browser extensions, click the puzzle-piece icon (or cube icon in Opera) and then click the pin icon next to the InVID extension.
Click Assistant for Current Page. This will open up the InVID assistant for the video you're currently looking at.
Click Video Analysis. This will open a page with information about the video you're looking at.
Locate the video's published date and time. This is posted under the video's title near the top of the page, as well as in the data block beneath the video's description next to the tag "Upload Time." The timestamp listed is the exact time the video was uploaded, and the time will be displayed in UTC. Click the Convert to local time button to pull up a timezone converter (though you'll have to enter the timestamp yourself). InVID will display timestamps in a 24-hour format. If you aren't sure how to convert a 24-hour timestamp into a 12-hour timestamp, check out this wikiHow article.
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