Date or dates may refer to: * Date, the fruit of the

date palm ''Phoenix dactylifera'', commonly known as the date palm, is a flowering-plant species in the palm family Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet #Fruits, fruit called dates. The species is widely cultivated across North Africa, northern A ...

(''Phoenix dactylifera'') * Jujube, also known as red date or Chinese date, the fruit of ''Ziziphus jujuba''

Social activity

Dating Dating is a stage of Romance (love), romantic relationships in which individuals engage in activity together, often with the intention of evaluating each other's suitability as a partner in a future intimate relationship. It falls into the cate ...

, a form of courtship involving social activity, with the aim of assessing a potential partner ** Group dating ** First date ** Blind date * Play date, an appointment for children to get together for a few hours *

Meeting A meeting is when two or more people come together to discuss one or more topics, often in a formal or business setting, but meetings also occur in a variety of other environments. Meetings can be used as form of group decision-making. Definiti ...

, when two or more people come together

Chronology

Calendar date A calendar date is a reference to a particular day, represented within a calendar system, enabling a specific day to be unambiguously identified. Simple math can be performed between dates; commonly, the number of days between two dates may be ca ...

, a day on a calendar * Date (metadata), 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 calendar date, days on the calendar. System time is measured by a ''sys ...

command for displaying the current date * Chronological dating, 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 Chronological dating, date materials such as Rock (geology), rocks or carbon, in which trace radioactive impurity, impurities were selectively incorporat ...

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

Arts, entertainment and media

Music

* Date (band), a Swedish dansband * "Date" (song), a 2009 song from ''Mr. Houston'' * Date Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records

Film and television

* "Date" (''Miranda''), 2009 British sitcom episode * ''Dates'' (TV series), a British romantic drama series * "Dates" (''Only Fools and Horses''), a 1988 episode of the BBC sitcom * "The Date" (''The Amazing World of Gumball''), an episode of the British-American animated series *'' Date Bhet'', a 2023 Indian Marathi-language film

Places

* Date, Fukushima, Japan * Date District, Fukushima, Japan * Date, Hokkaido, Japan * Date, South Dakota, United States * Dateland, Arizona, United States

Other uses

* Date (surname), a family name in Japan and elsewhere, including a list of people with the name * Date clan, a Japanese samurai kin group * Design Automation and Test in Europe, a yearly conference on electronic design automation