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Calendar Year

Four-digit year. Ambiguous as a standalone value — could be any integer. Column-mode inference checks range and distribution.

Calendar Year

datetime.component.year

Four-digit year. Ambiguous as a standalone value — could be any integer. Column-mode inference checks range and distribution.

Domain
datetime
Category
component
Casts to
SMALLINT
Scope
broad_numbers

Try it

CLI
$ finetype infer -i "2024"
→ datetime.component.year

DuckDB

Detect
SELECT finetype('2024');
-- → 'datetime.component.year'
Cast expression
{col}::SMALLINT
Safe cast pipeline
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS SMALLINT) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'datetime.component.year';

JSON Schema

finetype schema datetime.component.year
{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/datetime.component.year",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Four-digit year. Ambiguous as a standalone value — could be any integer. Column-mode inference checks range and distribution.",
  "examples": [
    "2024",
    "1999",
    "2000"
  ],
  "pattern": "^\\d{4}$",
  "title": "Calendar Year",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "SMALLINT",
  "x-finetype-transform": "{col}::SMALLINT"
}

Examples

202419992000

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