Date

Date or dates may refer to:

Common
  • Calendar date, a day on a calendar
    • Date (metadata), a representation term or class associated with a data element
    • date (Unix), a Unix command for displaying the current time and date
    • DATE (command), command on DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows operating systems for displaying the current date
    • Radiometric dating is a family of techniques used to determine of the approximate period of origin of an object, e.g. 'to carbon-date an artifact'
  • Date (fruit), the fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera
  • Dating, a form of courtship which may include any social activity undertaken by, typically, two persons with the aim of assessing each other's suitability as a partner.
Abbreviations for organizations and programs
  • Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Education, a substance abuse program in some U.S. schools
  • Design Automation and Test in Europe, a yearly conference on the topic of electronic design automation
  • Date Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records
Names of people, places, and organizations
  • Date (surname), family name in Japan and elsewhere
  • The Date clan, a Japanese feudal clan from the Sengoku period
  • Date, Hokkaidō, a city located in Iburi, Hokkaidō, Japan
  • Date, Fukushima, a city located in northern Fukushima, Japan
  • Date District, Fukushima, district located in Fukushima, Japan
  • Date City, California, a city located in California, USA
Episodes of television shows
  • "Dates" (Only Fools and Horses), an episode of the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses
  • "Date", an episode of the British sitcom Miranda

Famous quotes containing the word date:

    “In the South, the war is what A.D. is elsewhere: they date from it.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real human being—at least 60 per cent of the time.”
    —Penelope Leach (20th century)

    “Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself. But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of the bulb, and that shortly the flower must fall to the mould.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)