Method for monitoring timestamps in a data (100) acquired by a
data acquisition device (101,201a, ..., 201n,302,303), wherein the
data acquisition device (101,201a, ..., 201n,302,303) comprises a real
clock (203a,...,203n), according to which the timestamps (102) are allocated to the data, and a
virtual clock (202a,...,202n) progressing in essentially constant steps, according to which the data (100) is indexed (103), the method comprising: - receiving an index value (103, 103a) and a respective
timestamp (102, 102a) from the data (100), - predicting a
timestamp for a subsequent index value, based on the index value and the respective
timestamp and on preceding index values (103) and respective timestamps (102), to generate a predicted timestamp for the subsequent index value, - receiving a real
clock timestamp for the subsequent index value, - based on an acceptance criterion related to the real
clock timestamp and to the predicted timestamp, providing the real clock timestamp or the predicted timestamp for the subsequent index value.