# DATE vs YEAR

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/date-vs-year/9819
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [February 2, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/date-vs-year/9819 "2010-02-02T16:00:36Z")
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### Author: ![ptrk.mj](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ptrk.mj/32/300_2.png) [@ptrk.mj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ptrk.mj)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/date-vs-year/9819/4 "2010-02-02T18:01:58Z")

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Which tags do you use? ID3v2.4, I suppose.

From my understanding DATE (TDAT) is only available with ID3v2.3 tags (the frame was discontinued in ID3v2.4). So if you try to set it Mp3tag remaps it to YEAR (TDRC) and you end up with two fields.

Mp3tag tag field mappings:  
file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mp3tag/help/main\_tags.html

ID3v2.4 frames:  
[http://www.id3.org/id3v2.4.0-frames](http://www.id3.org/id3v2.4.0-frames)

Edit:

YEAR is a timestamp field. You can enter the whole information in it (don't know how it works in practice with software players/portable devices, I've never tried it but Mp3tag is able to save it)

> [@](#):
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> The timestamp fields are based on a subset of ISO 8601. When being as  
> precise as possible the format of a time string is  
> yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss (year, "-", month, "-", day, "T", hour (out of  
> 24), ":", minutes, ":", seconds), but the precision may be reduced by  
> removing as many time indicators as wanted. Hence valid timestamps  
> are  
> yyyy, yyyy-MM, yyyy-MM-dd, yyyy-MM-ddTHH, yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm and  
> yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss. All time stamps are UTC. For durations, use  
> the slash character as described in 8601, and for multiple non-  
> contiguous dates, use multiple strings, if allowed by the frame  
> definition.

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