Golivedatum

Golivedatum is a term used in information technology and project management to refer to the official date and time when a software system, service, or feature becomes live for end users. It functions as a single data point in release notes, project artifacts, and data models to record the moment at which functionality is released into production.

Etymology: a compound of "go live" and datum (data point), reflecting its role as a precise timestamp. In practice, golivedatum may be stored as a date, a timestamp, or a datetime with an associated time zone, and is often captured in deployment pipelines, change control records, or configuration management databases.

Usage: organizations use golivedatum to coordinate handoffs between development, testing, staging, and production environments, and to anchor analytics, incident response, and audits. It can be compared with related dates such as go-live date, deployment date, release date, or launch date, depending on organizational terminology.

Formats: common representations include ISO 8601 timestamps (for example, 2025-12-11T14:30:00Z) or localized formats in project plans; UTC is often preferred to avoid ambiguity.

Considerations: accurate golivedatum requires consistent time zones, daylight saving considerations, and clear policies for post-release adjustments or backouts. Data lineage and change control should preserve the original golivedatum, even if post-release changes occur.

See also: go-live, deployment, release management, change control.