Steve gives Clint the time because it's the... kind, maybe, is the word that applies, thing to do after saying that out loud, and pushing that hard.

"You didn't want to be found. That doesn't change a thing if I'd known I could find you, even once and didn't. There's a line on space that's useful then it just turns into enough room to convince yourself it's better for everybody else to stay away, or that nobody's bothering to look."

Or before you're dead in a ditch.