The phrase "assign a date" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to specify or designate a particular date for an event, task, or deadline.
Example: "Please assign a date for the project deadline so that everyone is aware of the timeline."
Alternatives: "set a date" or "designate a date."
At the point where errors begin, the oracle-writer was predicting the future, and it is possible to assign a date from the last correct prediction.
Because the sediment piles up quickly in lake basins, the researchers were able to assign a date to each footprint, based on the layer of rock where it was found.
As YouTube has previously confirmed to The Lede, its computers automatically assign a date to each video based on the current time in California when the upload begins, which can differ from the date in the user's time zone.
A total of 955 years for the 1st through the 8th dynasty in the Turin Canon has been used to assign a date of about 3100 bc for the beginning of the 1st dynasty, but this requires excessive average reign lengths, and an estimate of 2925 bc is preferable.
They frequently have to rely on circumstantial evidence and guesswork to assign a date of manufacture for ancient silk clothing and tapestries, as traditional carbon dating requires samples so large that it visibly damages the fabrics.
According to Duhem, "if we must assign a date for the birth of modern science, we would, without doubt, choose the year 1277 when the bishop of Paris solemnly proclaimed that several worlds could exist, and that the whole of heavens could, without contradiction, be moved with a rectilinear motion".
This means that most photographs can be assigned a date within around five years of their production.
Köchel classified the hundreds of unnumbered Mozart compositions into 23 categories and, on the basis of stylistic development and Mozart's musical handwriting, assigned a date of composition to each work.
Each of these personae was assigned a date of birth within a few years of Pessoa's own, and their mythologies were intertwined: Pessoa once wrote a passage in which Campos explains how Reis was fundamentally transformed by listening to a reading by Caeiro.
He has yet to be sentenced, but many of the counts bring fines of $250,000 each and prison sentences of up to 20 years.He cannot travel outside northern Illinois without the court's permission until his sentencing hearing, which has not yet been assigned a date (his defence team has until July 25th to request a retrial).
All were from Australian archaeological sites, and all had been assigned a date using radiocarbon dating methods.
