Date

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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 date, wherein a group of single men and women go out, with the aim of forming romantic partnerships
• Play date, an appointment for children to get together for a few hours
• Meeting over a meal (e.g."lunch date") or for a planned activity (e.g. "bowling date")

Chronology

• Calendar date, a day on a calendar
  • Old Style and New Style dates, used to indicate adoption of the Gregorian calendar in Great Britain and its colonies
• Date (metadata), a representation term or class associated with a data element
  • DATE command, a system time command for displaying the current date
• Chronological dating, estimating the age of an object or linguistic artifact
  • Dating methodologies in archaeology, for archaeological artifacts
  • Radiometric dating, a family of techniques used to estimate the period of origin of an object, e.g. "to carbon-date an artifact"

Arts, entertainment, and media

Organizations and programs

• Design Automation and Test in Europe, a yearly conference on electronic design automation
• Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Education, a substance abuse program in some U.S. schools

People and kinship groups

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

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 in the United States
• Date City, California, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Date District, Fukushima, a district located in Fukushima, Japan
• Dateland, Arizona, an unincorporated community in the United States

See also

• Blind date (disambiguation)
• Dating (disambiguation)
• Double date (disambiguation)
• Mystery Date (disambiguation)