# Help needed with dates, and traktor..... **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [February 25, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-needed-with-dates-and-traktor/14488 "2013-02-25T14:38:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gingerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/47e85d/32.png) [@Gingerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Gingerman)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-needed-with-dates-and-traktor/14488/1 "2013-02-25T14:38:25Z")
Hi I have searched this forum, and the traktor forum, and google, and tried lots of things (ID3V2.3, ID3V2.4 etc) but with no luck at all, so i was hoping someone here could help me 🙂 I want to take my file creation date, and for it to show in traktor as the year. I tried this, but it never worked : Format value Field = YEAR Format string = %\_file\_create\_date% However, this worked..... Format value Field = RELEASEDATE Format string = %\_file\_create\_date% Soooo, is there a way off getting the file creation date straight into the YEAR field, or is there a way to copy the RELEASEDATE field to the YEAR field? I tried this with no luck ☹ Format value Field = YEAR Format string = %releasedate% I hope this makes sense, and i'm not missing some thing really simple, but trust me i have tried and failed and would love some help here lol. ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-needed-with-dates-and-traktor/14488/2 "2013-02-25T14:51:28Z")
AFAIK does the YEAR field only allow a 4-digit-number whereas those ~date fields can contain much more like day and month as well. So you would have to cut off the year from the date-fields to not cause an overflow Format tag field: year Format string: $left(%releasedate%,4) ---
**Author:** ![dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/dano/32/6_2.png) [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-needed-with-dates-and-traktor/14488/3 "2013-02-25T15:34:46Z")
The YEAR field in ID3v2 can also be in this format: YYYY-MM-DD ---
**Author:** ![Gingerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/47e85d/32.png) [@Gingerman](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Gingerman)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-needed-with-dates-and-traktor/14488/4 "2013-02-26T17:35:07Z")
I would like YEAR field in the format: YYYY-MM-DD (I'm using ID3 V2), but I still don't know how to get the file creation date into the YEAR field ☹ Any idea's guys (and/or girls)? ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-needed-with-dates-and-traktor/14488/5 "2013-02-26T17:44:38Z")
Check what your date-format looks like, if you transfer it to a tag field. So for that try make yourself a quick action for e.g COMMENT with the formatstring: %\_file\_create\_date% e.g. for me the %\_file\_create\_date% looks like this: 26.02.2013 which is DD.MM.YYYY As YEAR accepts YYYY-MM-DD you have to reshuffle the order. In my example DD can be cut out by $left(%\_file\_create\_date%,2) MM can be cut out by $mid(%\_file\_create\_date%,4,2) YYYY can be cut out by $right(%\_file\_create\_date%,4) So, to transform my %\_file\_create\_date% to YYYY-MM-DD you have to format YEAR with the following string: $right(%\_file\_create\_date%,4)-$mid(%\_file\_create\_date%,4,2)-$left(%\_file\_create\_date%,2) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/help-needed-with-dates-and-traktor/14488/6 "2026-02-09T12:24:21Z")
Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:24pm UTC