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I need to design a table where one of the columns is the range of years. The range of years denote when someone was working in a specific city. For example,

Date       Location
---------  --------
1990-1992  London
1992-1996  Boston

"Date" looks odd to me because the column values do not appear to be dates but rather year ranges.

Is there a better word for the column header? A few things that came to mind were, "Duration", "Years", "When", etc. but I don't know if there is a standard word for this that is suitable for this.

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  • time-interval, period...?
    – Justin
    Commented Oct 30, 2019 at 5:33

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What the OP refers to as "The range of years denote when someone was working in a specific city" is a typical example of a period.

period (Lexico)
noun

1A length or portion of time.
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‘the period 1977–85’
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‘The file dates span the period between September 1996 and April 1997.’

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Term

a limited or definite extent of time

Tenure and duration are synonyms and are equally as valid.

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  • Why did at last two people down-vote this?
    – puppetsock
    Commented Oct 30, 2019 at 18:54
  • @puppetsock you would not believe the pettiness of people on this site. They actually look for my other answers to downvote as well.
    – Keltari
    Commented Oct 30, 2019 at 19:10
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Timespan would be an succinct, unambiguous term. https://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/timespan

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