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date [n]
 
1)the specified day of the month; "what is the date today?"
    Synonyms :day_of_the_month 
    See Also: day  due_date  6_june_1944  birthday 
 
2)a particular day specified as the time something will happen; "the date of the election is set by law"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: day  rain_date  sell-by_date 
 
3)a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"
    Synonyms :appointment engagement 
    See Also: get_together  blind_date  double_date  rendezvous 
 
4)a particular but unspecified point in time; "they hoped to get together at an early date"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: point 
 
5)the present; "they are up to date"; "we haven't heard from them to date"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: nowadays 
 
6)a participant in a date; "his date never stopped talking"
    Synonyms :escort 
    See Also: associate  appointment  escort  blind_date 
 
7)the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred; "he tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: calendar_day  calendar_month  calendar_year  date_of_reference 
 
8)sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
    Synonyms :
    See Also: edible_fruit  date_palm 
 
date [v]
 
1)go on a date with; "Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: go_out  appointment  double-date 
 
2)stamp with a date; "The package is dated November 24"
    Synonyms :date_stamp 
    See Also: stamp 
 
3)assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of; "Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: determine  dating  chronologise  misdate 
 
4)date regularly; have a steady relationship with; "Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"; "He is dating his former wife again!"
    Synonyms :go_out go_steady see 
    See Also: affiliate  appointment 
 
5)provide with a dateline; mark with a date; "She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: furnish  date-mark 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

A string unique to a time duration of 24 hours between 2 successive midnights defined by the local time zone. The specific representation of a date will depend on which calendar convention is in force; e.g., Gregorian, Islamic, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew etc. as well as local ordering conventions such as UK: day/month/year, US: month/day/year.

Inputting and outputting dates on computers is greatly complicated by these localisation issues which is why they tend to operate on dates internally in some unified form such as seconds past midnight at the start of the first of January 1970.

Many software and hardware representations of dates allow only two digits for the year, leading to the year 2000 problem.

Unix manual page: date(1), ctime(3).

(1997-07-11)








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