Date or dates may refer to:

  • Date, the fruit of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera)
  • Jujube, also known as red date or Chinese date, the fruit of Ziziphus jujuba

Social activity

  • Dating, a form of courtship involving social activity, with the aim of assessing a potential partner
  • Group dating
  • First date
  • Blind date
  • 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

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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
  • Date FM, a radio station in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
  • Design Automation and Test in Europe, a yearly conference on electronic design automation

See also

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