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:

    “I date the end of the old republic and the birth of the empire to the invention, in the late thirties, of air conditioning. Before air conditioning, Washington was deserted from mid-June to September.... But after air conditioning and the Second World War arrived, more or less at the same time, Congress sits and sits while the presidents—or at least their staffs—never stop making mischief.”
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

    “We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to- date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skepsis, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

    “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)