In Apple's 2019 Form 10-K filing on EDGAR, I see this:
What is the difference between "Filing Date" and "Accepted" date?
In some filings, the "Filing Date" and "Accepted" date are the same, while in others, the dates are different.
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The filing date is when the information was uploaded onto the EDGAR system.
After that, per this document:
https://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/pdsdissemspec051310.pdf
there is a "rigorous series of syntactic and semantic validation rules" that the submission is run through. If it passes, then the submission is reassembled with header tags, and disseminated throughout the system.
That acceptance and dissemination process usually takes less than two minutes.
Another aspect of your question - the filing date field doesn't include time information, only the date itself.
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