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To answer your direct question, you can use the :let command to set a shell variable from Vim directly, using the $ prefix on the variable name. That's probably the most straightforward way to do so, even though it ends up creating an exported variable.
So:
let $date_given_sh = date_given_vim
Or even:
let $date_given_sh = "2000-01-01"
See :help :...
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