Take on the lack of time stamp

With all the progress we have made in technology I can't fathom why my
IPhone doesn't automatically time-stamp every message I receive. I
can't figure it out but the decision to time stamp messages seems to
be done completely haphazardly which makes it incredibly difficult to
be able to use efficiently
Today a friend came to visit us and I told her to text me when she was
crossing into Siberiklyn so we could meet her at the train stop.
Well I check my phone and see the 'crossing the bridges' text but
without a time stamp making it impossible to figure out what time I
should leave

Long story short she stood on a street corner for 15 minutes out in
the miss of nowhere while I was dilly dallying
SLIA