Date or dates may refer to: *

Date (fruit) ''Phoenix dactylifera'', commonly known as date or date palm, is a flowering plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates. The species is widely cultivated across northern Africa, the Middle Ea ...

, the fruit of the date palm (''Phoenix dactylifera'')

Social activity

Dating Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in which two individuals engage in an activity together, most often with the intention of evaluating each other's suitability as a partner in a future intimate relationship. It falls into the categor ...

, a form of courtship involving social activity, with the aim of assessing a potential partner **

Group dating Group dating is a modern pattern for dating where a group of single people organize a night out, with the hope of forming romantic partnerships. It is most popular in Japan, where it is known as ''gōkon''. In the U.S., the group dating is becoming ...

Play date Play date or playdate is an expression, primarily used in the United States, for an arranged appointment for children to meet and play. It should not be confused with dating as there is no implied romantic component. Play dates have become co ...

, an appointment for children to get together for a few hours * Meeting, when two or more people come together

Chronology

* Calendar date, a day on a calendar **

Old Style and New Style dates Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively. Usually, this is the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar as enacted in various European countries between 158 ...

, from before and after the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar **

ISO 8601 ISO 8601 is an international standard covering the worldwide exchange and communication of date and time-related data. It is maintained by the Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and was first published in 1988, w ...

, an international standard covering date formats *

Date (metadata) In metadata, the term ''date'' is a representation term used to specify a calendar date in the Gregorian calendar. Many data representation standards such as XML, XML Schema, Web Ontology Language specify that ISO date format ISO 8601 should be ...

, a representation term to specify a calendar date **DATE command, a

system time In computer science and computer programming, system time represents a computer system's notion of the passage of time. In this sense, ''time'' also includes the passing of days on the calendar. System time is measured by a ''system clock'', w ...

command for displaying the current date *

Chronological dating Chronological dating, or simply dating, is the process of attributing to an object or event a date in the past, allowing such object or event to be located in a previously established chronology. This usually requires what is commonly known as a "d ...

, attributing to an object or event a date in the past **

Radiometric dating Radiometric dating, radioactive dating or radioisotope dating is a technique which is used to date materials such as rocks or carbon, in which trace radioactive impurities were selectively incorporated when they were formed. The method compares t ...

, dating materials such as rocks in which trace radioactive impurities were incorporated when they were formed

Arts, entertainment and media

Music

Date (band) Date is a modern dansband from Sweden. The band was established in 1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is she ...

, a Swedish dansband * "Date" (song), a 2009 song from ''Mr. Houston'' *

Date Records Date Records was a sub-label of Columbia Records which had two different incarnations. The first incarnation was a short-lived rockabilly label in 1958 which included a release by Billy "Crash" Craddock. The more significant incarnation was relau ...

, a subsidiary of Columbia Records

Film and television

*"Date", an episode of the British sitcom ''Miranda'' * ''Dates'' (TV series), a British romantic drama series * "Dates" (''Only Fools and Horses''), a 1988 episode of the BBC sitcom

Places

Date, Fukushima is a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 59,625 in 22,843 households and a population density of 220 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . Geography Date occupies the eastern half of the F ...

, Japan *

Date District, Fukushima is a district located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of 2008, the district has an estimated population of 39,633 and a density of 190 persons per km2. The total area is 208.53 km2. Towns and villages * Kawamata *Koori * Kunimi Merger ...

, Japan * Date, Hokkaido, Japan *

Date, South Dakota Date is a ghost town in Perkins County, in the U.S. state of South Dakota South Dakota (; Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the ...

, United States *

Date City, California Date City is an unincorporated community in Imperial County, California. It is located east-southeast of Holtville on California State Route 115. It lies in the southern Imperial Valley and within the El Centro metropolitan area, at an ele ...

, United States *

Dateland, Arizona Dateland is both a CDP and a populated place in Yuma County, Arizona, United States. It is in an area well known for date palm dates. Dateland has the ZIP Code of 85333; in 2000, the population of the 85333 ZCTA was 852. The community is par ...

, United States

Other uses

Date (surname) is a Japanese surname. It is also a Maharashtrian surname from India with a similar pronunciation. It can refer to: Japanese people *Date clan, a lineage of ''daimyōs'' who controlled northern Japan in the late 16th century and into the Edo peri ...

, a family name in Japan and elsewhere, including a list of people with the name *

Date clan The is a Japanese samurai kin group. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Date", ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 5 retrieved 2013-5-5. History The Date family was founded ...

, a Japanese samurai kin group *

Design Automation and Test in Europe A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design'' ...

, a yearly conference on electronic design automation