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 Eas ...

, 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 catego ...

, a form of courtship involving social activity, with the aim of assessing a potential partner ** Group dating * 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. Defin ...

, 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. The calendar date allows the specific day to be identified. The number of days between two dates may be calculated. For example, "25 " is ten days after "1 ...

, 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 1 ...

, 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, wi ...

, 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 b ...

, 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'', ...

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 ...

, 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", 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 Fuk ...

, Japan * Date District, Fukushima, Japan * Date, Hokkaido, Japan * Date, South Dakota, United States * Date City, California, 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 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 yearly conference on electronic design automation