# Adding Month and Day to %Year%
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-month-and-day-to-year/5900
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 14, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-month-and-day-to-year/5900 "2007-12-14T22:30:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@chtchan](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chtchan)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-month-and-day-to-year/5900/1 "2007-12-14T22:30:26Z")
Hello, I noticed there was a restriction to 4 digits when entering a year in the year for id3 tag, is it possible to also add the month and day? Also, I have a list of of the dates for different albums in a text file, is it possible to make it look for the album and if the album matches with one of the album, add the date corresponding to that album.
For example
2007/11/02 Album1
2007/12/04 Album2
Make program look for those album names, then add corresponding date if album name matches. Thank You!
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2007, 5:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-month-and-day-to-year/5900/2 "2007-12-15T05:35:20Z")
> [@chtchan](#):
>
> Hello, I noticed there was a restriction to 4 digits when entering a year in the year for id3 tag, is it possible to also add the month and day? ...
Hmm, there is no restriction, maybe in panel view, but in grid view or extended tag view you can enter date string in ISO 8601 format e.g. long 2007-11-02T12:00:00 or short 2007-11-02 or shorter 20071102 or rather short 2007.
> [@chtchan](#):
>
> ... Also, I have a list of of the dates for different albums in a text file, is it possible to make it look for the album and if the album matches with one of the album, add the date corresponding to that album.
> For example
> 2007/11/02 Album1
> 2007/12/04 Album2
> Make program look for those album names, then add corresponding date if album name matches. Thank You!
Read this thread and try it out:
[Add composer if title matches from text file?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/5660/11)
DD.20071215.0736.CET
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### Author:  [@SquallLeonhart38](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/SquallLeonhart38)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2007, 9:03am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-month-and-day-to-year/5900/3 "2007-12-15T09:03:31Z")
> [@chtchan](#):
>
> Hello, I noticed there was a restriction to 4 digits when entering a year in the year for id3 tag, is it possible to also add the month and day? Also, I have a list of of the dates for different albums in a text file, is it possible to make it look for the album and if the album matches with one of the album, add the date corresponding to that album.
> For example
> 2007/11/02 Album1
> 2007/12/04 Album2
>
> Make program look for those album names, then add corresponding date if album name matches. Thank You!
When you want to follow the standard, you shouldn't enter more than 4 digits in the YEAR field. For day and month the field DATE is available (format DDMM). When you use ID3v2.4, you can also use the field RELEASETIME to display thie longer formats of a releasedate, like:
2007-12-15
or the ISO standard DetlevD mentioned.
You can access both fields via the Extended Tag Dialog or by addidng them to the tagpanel or adding columns for them.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-month-and-day-to-year/5900/4 "2026-02-09T12:20:39Z")