public final HiveParser_IdentifiersParser.dateLiteral_return dateLiteral() throws RecognitionException {
		HiveParser_IdentifiersParser.dateLiteral_return retval = new HiveParser_IdentifiersParser.dateLiteral_return();
		retval.start = input.LT(1);

		CommonTree root_0 = null;

		Token KW_DATE135=null;
		Token StringLiteral136=null;

		CommonTree KW_DATE135_tree=null;
		CommonTree StringLiteral136_tree=null;
		RewriteRuleTokenStream stream_StringLiteral=new RewriteRuleTokenStream(adaptor,"token StringLiteral");
		RewriteRuleTokenStream stream_KW_DATE=new RewriteRuleTokenStream(adaptor,"token KW_DATE");

		try {
			// IdentifiersParser.g:251:5: ( KW_DATE StringLiteral ->)
			// IdentifiersParser.g:252:5: KW_DATE StringLiteral
			{
			KW_DATE135=(Token)match(input,KW_DATE,FOLLOW_KW_DATE_in_dateLiteral1664); if (state.failed) return retval; 
			if ( state.backtracking==0 ) stream_KW_DATE.add(KW_DATE135);

			StringLiteral136=(Token)match(input,StringLiteral,FOLLOW_StringLiteral_in_dateLiteral1666); if (state.failed) return retval; 
			if ( state.backtracking==0 ) stream_StringLiteral.add(StringLiteral136);

			// AST REWRITE
			// elements: 
			// token labels: 
			// rule labels: retval
			// token list labels: 
			// rule list labels: 
			// wildcard labels: 
			if ( state.backtracking==0 ) {
			retval.tree = root_0;
			RewriteRuleSubtreeStream stream_retval=new RewriteRuleSubtreeStream(adaptor,"rule retval",retval!=null?retval.getTree():null);

			root_0 = (CommonTree)adaptor.nil();
			// 252:27: ->
			{
				adaptor.addChild(root_0, 
				      // Create DateLiteral token, but with the text of the string value
				      // This makes the dateLiteral more consistent with the other type literals.
				      adaptor.create(TOK_DATELITERAL, (StringLiteral136!=null?StringLiteral136.getText():null))
				    );
			}


			retval.tree = root_0;
			}

			}

			retval.stop = input.LT(-1);

			if ( state.backtracking==0 ) {
			retval.tree = (CommonTree)adaptor.rulePostProcessing(root_0);
			adaptor.setTokenBoundaries(retval.tree, retval.start, retval.stop);
			}
		}

		catch (RecognitionException e) {
		  throw e;
		}

		finally {
			// do for sure before leaving
		}
		return retval;
	}