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:

    “Yesterday, December 7, 1941Ma date that will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “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)

    “Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives—from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango—with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to- date scripts for actors on the tourists’ stage.”
    —Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)