# Is the Date format actually supposed to be a "Double-Date"...? i.e. 1999\\\\1999

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-the-date-format-actually-supposed-to-be-a-double-date-i-e-1999-1999/54634
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 6, 2021, 1:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-the-date-format-actually-supposed-to-be-a-double-date-i-e-1999-1999/54634 "2021-10-06T01:05:09Z")
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### 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: [October 6, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/is-the-date-format-actually-supposed-to-be-a-double-date-i-e-1999-1999/54634/2 "2021-10-06T04:42:46Z")

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For year, see here:

> [@Duplicate year fields on random tracks](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/duplicate-year-fields-on-random-tracks/44164/):
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> Hey, Seemingly in random (both random tracks and random timing), Mp3Tag will mess up a track's year. It would change a track's year into a year//year format instead of simply year. For example, a song that came out in 2007 could be changed to display 2007//2007 in the year field, as opposed of course to simply 2007. This has been happening without my intervention (I am very pedantic about my music's metadata and personally and manually made sure everything is the way I like it) for quite some…

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