In his article, Chris Burt focuses on the relationship between time and autobiographical memory. The question Burt puts forward is whether temporal markers in reports on autobiographic memories reflect specific temporal information or result from rather complex cognitive processing of time-relevant knowledge. The aspect of time is inherent to the concept of memory, which is about retrieving information from the past. The past can reflect a given time point and memory retrieval can relate to this specific context. Alternatively, the past can be defined in terms of duration, and memory retrieval will then be less likely based on the retrieval of a specific episodic context. In this commentary, the author discusses the aspect of time in autobiographical memory with respect to the kinds of long-term memory involved. She emphasizes the need to distinguish between episodic reexperiencing and semantic retrieval based on familiarity. This distinction may be of particular importance considering the relative susceptibility of these two aspects of autobiographical memory to reencoding following retrieval.