20050203

20050203 is a numeric date string in the YYYYMMDD format, representing February 3, 2005. In many computer systems and data schemas, this compact form is used as a timestamp, file name, or database key because it sorts naturally when treated as a number or string.

According to the Gregorian calendar, 2005 was not a leap year, so February had 28 days. The date February 3, 2005 fell on a Thursday.

As an alternative representation, the same day is written as 2005-02-03 in ISO 8601. When used without separators in user interfaces, data exports, or logs, 20050203 can be unambiguous within a fixed-width field but may be misread in regional contexts that adopt other date orders (for example MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY).

Uses and considerations: In software development, such yyyymmdd strings help with lexicographic sorting, versioning, and archival naming. They can be part of filenames like report_20050203.txt or keys in databases.

See also: ISO 8601 date formats, YYYYMMDD, date encoding practices, file naming conventions.