# What is the correct value and field for Date?

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-the-correct-value-and-field-for-date/41347>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [April 6, 2018, 8:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-the-correct-value-and-field-for-date/41347 "2018-04-06T08:57:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![bigcitydealer](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@bigcitydealer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bigcitydealer)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 8:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-the-correct-value-and-field-for-date/41347/1 "2018-04-06T08:57:49Z")

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I'm trying to add the column date.

I tried %date%

I get:

[SYNTAX ERROR IN FORMATTING STRING]

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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:** [April 6, 2018, 8:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-the-correct-value-and-field-for-date/41347/2 "2018-04-06T08:59:48Z")

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see the list of supported fields:

> **[Tag Field Mappings – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/mapping/)**
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> Overview of all available tag fields, their names in Mp3tag, and how they are mapped to the internal structures of the different tag formats. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.

basically, there are 2 fields for time coordinates:  
YEAR  
RELEASETIME

%date% is not according to the MP3 standard.

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**Author:** ![bigcitydealer](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@bigcitydealer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/bigcitydealer)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 9:08am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-the-correct-value-and-field-for-date/41347/3 "2018-04-06T09:08:11Z")

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In extended tags I have the following entry:

DATE 2603

How can I create a column to search all files that have an entry for DATE?

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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:** [April 6, 2018, 9:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-the-correct-value-and-field-for-date/41347/4 "2018-04-06T09:15:44Z")

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it is not necessary to have a column in the file list to filter for the presence of a certain field.  
You can enter  
%date% PRESENT  
to see which of the loaded files has that field.  
If you get a syntax error, you might have entered something like  
date%

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**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, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/what-is-the-correct-value-and-field-for-date/41347/5 "2026-02-09T12:27:21Z")

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