compressing file from the command line and adding the date of creation to it

You need to use tar command as follows (syntax of tar command):
tar -zcvf LC52_`date +%b%d-%y`.tag.gz data/

Where,

• -z: Compress archive using gzip program
• -c: Create archive
• -v: Verbose i.e display progress while creating archive
• -f: Archive File name
• -x: Extract files

source: link for compresing and link for date on file 1, 2