Date

Date or dates may refer to:

Common

• Calendar date, a day on a calendar
  • Date (metadata), a representation term or class associated with a data element
  • DATE (command), command on DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows operating systems for displaying the current date
  • Radiometric dating is a family of techniques used to determine of the approximate period of origin of an object, e.g. "to carbon-date an artifact"
• Date (fruit), the fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera
• Dating, a form of courtship, which may include any social activity undertaken by, typically, two persons with the aim of assessing each other's suitability as a partner

Abbreviations for organizations and programs

• Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Education, a substance abuse program in some U.S. schools
• Design Automation and Test in Europe, a yearly conference on the topic of electronic design automation
• Date Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records

Names of people, places, and organizations

• Date (surname), family name in Japan and elsewhere
• The Date clan, a Japanese feudal clan from the Sengoku period
• Date, Hokkaido, a city located in Iburi, Hokkaidō, Japan
• Date, Fukushima, a city located in northern Fukushima, Japan
• Date District, Fukushima, district located in Fukushima, Japan
• Date City, California, a city located in California, USA
• Date, South Dakota, an unincorporated community
• Dateland, Arizona, a unincorporated community in Yuma County, Arizona, USA

Entertainment

• Date (band), a Swedish dansband
• "Dates" (Only Fools and Horses), a 1988 episode of the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses
• "Date", an episode of the British sitcom Miranda
• Dates (TV series), a Channel 4 series
• Date (song), a 2009 song from Mr. Houston