19081997

19081997 is a numeric string that most often denotes a calendar date when read in the day-month-year convention used in many parts of the world: 19 August 1997. Without separators or metadata, the same sequence of digits can be interpreted in different ways depending on the date notation in use. In ISO 8601, the same moment would be written as 1997-08-19, and a compact form in some contexts might appear as 19970819. The interpretation can be ambiguous if the delimiter format is not specified, particularly among systems that default to different regional conventions.

In computing and recordkeeping, strings like 19081997 are commonly used as date stamps or identifiers. They may appear in filenames (for example, as part of a file name or version tag), in catalog numbers, or in archival records to indicate when an item was created, modified, or entered into a system. Because the digits encode a date, they can help with sorting and chronological organization, especially when concatenated with other alphanumeric elements.

There is no widely recognized event or entity universally associated with the exact numeric label 19081997. As a date string, its significance depends on the context in which it is used, rather than on any intrinsic meaning of the sequence itself.

See also: Date format, DD/MM/YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY, ISO 8601.