Look up Date, Dates, date, dated, or dates in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Date or dates may refer to:

• Date (fruit), the fruit of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera)

Social activity

• Dating, 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, when two or more people come together

Chronology

• Calendar date, a day on a calendar
• Date (metadata), a representation term to specify a calendar date
  • DATE command, a system time command for displaying the current date
• Chronological dating, attributing to an object or event a date in the past
  • Radiometric dating, 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
• "The Date" (The Amazing World of Gumball), an episode of the British-American animated series The Amazing World of Gumball

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