Date

Date or dates may refer to:

Common meanings

• Date (fruit), the fruit of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera)
• Calendar date, a day on a calendar, which may also be used in:
  • Date (metadata), a representation term or class associated with a data element
  • DATE command, a system time command on DOS, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows operating systems for displaying the current date
  • Dating methodologies in archaeology, for an archaeological artifact
  • Old Style and New Style dates, to distinguish the use of the Gregorian calendar from some older calendar
  • Radiometric dating, a family of techniques used to determine of the approximate period of origin of an object, e.g. "to carbon-date an artifact"
• Date, a social activity which may be associated with:
  • 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
  • Double date, a social date in which two couples participate
  • Group date, a modern pattern for dating wherein a group of single men and a group of single women organise a night out, with the hope of forming romantic partnerships
  • Meeting over a meal (e.g., "breakfast date", "brunch date", "coffee date", "dinner date", "drinks date", "lunch date") or for a planned activity (e.g, "bowling date", "golf date", "ski date", "tennis date"), for social and/or business reasons
  • Play date, an arranged appointment for children to get together for a few hours

Places

• Date, Fukushima, a city located in northern Fukushima, Japan
• Date, Hokkaido, a city located in Iburi, Hokkaidō, Japan
• Date, South Dakota, an unincorporated community
• Date City, California, a city located in California, USA
• Date District, Fukushima, district located in Fukushima, Japan
• Dateland, Arizona, a unincorporated community in Yuma County, Arizona, USA

People and kinship groups

• Date (surname), family name in Japan and elsewhere
• Date clan, a Japanese feudal clan from the Sengoku period

Art, entertainment, and media

Films

• Mystery Date (1991), an American teen comedy film

Games

• Mystery Date (game), a board game from the Milton Bradley Company first released in 1965

Music

Groups and labels

• Date (band), a Swedish dansband
• Date Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records

Songs

• "Date" (song), a 2009 song from Mr. Houston

Television

Series

• Dates (TV series), a UK Channel 4 series

Episodes

• "Date", an episode of the British sitcom Miranda
• "Dates" (Only Fools and Horses), a 1988 episode of the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses
• "Misery Date", an episode of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
• "Mistery Date" (November 14, 2012), season 4, episode 8 of the American sitcom Modern Family, and the series' 80th episode overall
• "Mystery Date" (Mad Men), an episode of the American AMC series Mad Men

Organizations and programs

• Design Automation and Test in Europe (or DATE), a yearly conference on the topic of electronic design automation
• Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Education (or DATE), a substance abuse program in some U.S. schools

See also

• Blind date (disambiguation)
• Dating (disambiguation)