The effects of confinement and electron correlations on the relative time delay between the 3s and 3p photoemissions of Ar confined endohedrally in C60 are investigated using the time dependent local density approximation -a method that is also found to mostly agree with recent time delay measurements between the 3s and 3p subshells in atomic Ar. At energies in the neighborhood of 3p Cooper minimum, correlations with C60 electrons are found to induce opposite temporal effects in the emission of Ar 3p hybridized symmetrically versus that of Ar 3p hybridized antisymmetrically with C60. A recoil-type interaction model mediated by the confinement is found to best describe the phenomenon.PACS numbers: 32.80. Fb,With the tremendous advancement in technology for generating attosecond (as) isolated pulses as well as attosecond pulse trains, it becomes possible to study fundamental phenomena of light-matter interaction with unprecedented precision on an as timescale [1][2][3]. In particular, the relative time delay between the photoelectrons from different subshells on as timescale, a subject of intense recent activities, is expected to probe important aspects of electron correlations that predominantly influence the photoelectron. Pump-probe experiments have been performed to measure the relative delay in the photoemission processes, where extreme ultra-violet (XUV) pulses are used to remove an electron from a particular subshell and subsequently a weak infrared (IR) pulse accesses the temporal information of the emission event [4].Streaking measurements were carried out to probe photoemission from the valence and the conduction band in single-crystalline magnesium [5] and tungsten [6]. A streaking technique was also employed to measure the relative delay of approximately 21±5 as between the 2s and 2p subshells of atomic Ne at 106 eV photon energy [7]. Despite several theoretical attempts [8][9][10][11][12][13][14] to explain this measured delay in Ne, only about a half of the delay could be reproduced, keeping the time delay in Ne photoemissions still an open problem. Recently, the relative delay between the 3s and 3p subshells in Ar is measured at three photon energies by interferometric technique using attosecond pulses [15,16]. Theoretical methods (e.g. time-dependent nonperturbative method [8], diagrammatic many-body perturbation theory [13], Random phase approximation with exchange (RPAE) [14,16], and multi-configurational Hartree-Fock (MCHF) [17]) have been employed to investigate this relative delay in Ar, although agreements between theory and experiment is rather inconclusive. A ubiquitous understanding in all these studies is the dominant influence of electron correlations to determine the time behavior of outgoing electrons. Thus, it is fair to expect that the process near a Cooper minimum or a resonance will be particularly nuanced.It is therefore of spontaneous interest to extend the study to test the effect of correlations on the temporal photoresponse of atoms in material confinements. A brilliant natura...