Good Question, I have run across this dilemma many times. If I don't know who it is for, I just put a title, my name, town and no date. I don't want to give it away two years later and have them think it's an old quilt I had lying around. If it is going to someone I know, I add a date. If it's baby quilt, I like to label them on their true birthdate with that date included.