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For the formal verification of the concurrent or communicating dynamic systems modeled with Petri nets, the method of the unfolding is used to cope with the well-known problem of the state explosion. An extension of the method to the non safe time Petri nets is presented. The obtained unfolding is simply a prefix of that from the underlying ordinary Petri net to the time Petri net. For a certain class of time Petri nets, a finite prefix capturing the state space and the timed language ensues from the calculation of a finite set of finite processes with valid timings. The quantitative temporal constraints associated with these processes can serve to validate more effectively the temporal specifications of a hard real-time system.