# 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")
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### Author: ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@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")

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> [@chtchan](#):
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> 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](#):
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> ... 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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