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 Old Style and New Style dates, from before and after the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar ISO 8601, an international standard covering date formats 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 Places Date, Fukushima, 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, a Japanese samurai kin group 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)