在逻辑中，术语时间逻辑被用来描述为表现和推理关于时间限定的命题的规则和符号化的任何系统。它有时也被称为时态逻辑，这是 Arthur Prior 在1960年代介入的基于模态逻辑的特殊的时间逻辑系统。它后来被计算机科学家特别是 Amir Pnueli 和逻辑学家进一步的开发。中国著名计算机科学家唐稚松在这一领域亦有较深入的研究，并写有专着《时序逻辑进程设计与软件工程》。

时间逻辑首先被亚里士多德深入研究过，他的著作中有粗糙形式的一阶时间模态二值逻辑。使用存在量词或全称量词的任何逻辑都叫做一阶逻辑。把时间看作状态的串行的任何逻辑都是时间逻辑，只使用两个真值的任何逻辑都是二值逻辑。

In logic, temporal logic is any system of rules and symbolism for representing, and reasoning about, propositions qualified in terms of time. In a temporal logic we can then express statements like "I am always hungry", "I will eventually be hungry", or "I will be hungry until I eat something". Temporal logic is sometimes also used to refer to tense logic, a particular modal logic-based system of temporal logic introduced by Arthur Prior in the late 1950s, and important results were obtained by Hans Kamp. Subsequently it has been developed further by computer scientists, notably Amir Pnueli, and logicians.