The universe of Judge Dredd is set 122 years into the future So first Judge Dredd published in 1977 is set in 2099 Stories this year of 2003 are set in 2125
The city or place designation at the beginning of a story Some newspapers strictly enforce a rule that the dateline must say where the reporter was when the story was gathered A foreign story gathered by phone at home, then, might run with no dateline
a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian mark with a date and place; "dateline a newspaper article