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)

    “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)

    “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)