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Generically, it's a number range and, more specifically, a date range. It's also (since you include the parentheses when talking about the string) parenthetical information . Grammatically, it might be a noun phrase, or, semantically, it could be an elided adjective phrase.
+1. Deathday was popularized by J. K. Rowling via Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpinton, aka Nearly Headless Nick.In the Chamber of Secrets novel, Nick invites Harry Potter and his friends and a whole slew of ghosts to his 500th Deathday Party, explaining that the day of death is celebrated by ghosts more commonly and thoroughly than the day of birth, because a ghost is defined by their death (and they ...
When either date contains a space, the en dash is preceded by a space (preferably a non-breaking space, code: ) and followed by a space. When full dates are provided in the text or in an infobox, year-pairs can be sufficient for the lede in some cases; in such cases no spaces are used, e.g., "(1943–1971)".
Acronym Finder, lists 'dated' as 14th in its list of (215) expansions for the abbreviation dd. (It does not list normally upper-cased and normally lower-cased exemplars separately.) (It does not list normally upper-cased and normally lower-cased exemplars separately.)
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In particular, the language inconsistency noted above has given birth to a widely-held misconception that AD is an English abbreviation for after death (i.e., after the death of Christ). Obviously this is wrong, but it was actually the first explanation I heard as a child, which then caused great confusion when I encountered a teacher telling ...
Event: Death Death Date: Abt 1810 Newspaper: Columbian Centinel Publication Date: 26 May 1810 Publication Place: Massachusetts, USA Transcription: Wheeler, Peter d.in Petersham, aged 32 (C.C.May 26, 1810) The Sprague Project. It's also true for marriage announcements: Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930
4. When a deceased person is mentioned in a publication his or her name is often followed by parentheses and the year of birth and the year of death. There is a single word describing that information. What is that word?
In text, therefore, the full date should always be spelled out [cross reference omitted]. In documentation and in tables, if numerous dates occur, months may be abbreviated, and the day-month-year form, requiring no punctuation may be neater (e.g., 5 Oct 2003).
People will usually recognise the meaning of "Year TD", and by extension they would recognise "Month TD" or "Week TD". But "TD" would not normally be used on its own, and as you say, the full phrase is "year to date" (apparently a shortened form of "from the beginning of the year to the current date". –