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Chinese Standard Date

datetime.date.chinese_ymd

Year-Month-Day with Chinese character delimiters. Standard in Chinese government, institutional data, and formal documents. Uses Unicode characters for year, month, day markers.

Worked samples

DuckDB 1.5.5 · finetype 0.6.64

ValueAs DATE
2024年1月15日2024-01-15
2023年12月25日2023-12-25
2022年6月1日2022-06-01

Shape

Pattern
^\d{4}年[1-9]\d?月[1-3]?\d日$
ValueLengthShape
2024年1月15日10matches
2023年12月25日11matches
2022年6月1日9matches
2024年1月159rejected: one character short

Background

Origin

GB/T 9704—2012, 党政机关公文格式 (Layout key for official document of Party and government organs), is a national standard of the People's Republic of China that replaces GB/T 9704—1999.[1] GB/T 9704—2012 was published on 2012-06-29 and took effect on 2012-07-01.[1] GB/T 9704—2012 was issued by 中华人民共和国国家质量监督检验检疫总局 and 中国国家标准化管理委员会.[1] For the date an official document is written (成文日期), GB/T 9704—2012 requires the year, month and day to be written out in Arabic numerals, with the year in full.[1]

Use

In the Unicode CLDR locale data for Chinese (zh), the long and medium Gregorian date patterns are both y年M月d日.[2] In the Unicode CLDR locale data for Traditional Chinese (zh-Hant), the long Gregorian date pattern is y年M月d日.[3] In the Unicode CLDR locale data for Japanese (ja), the long Gregorian date pattern is also y年M月d日.[4]

Where you'll meet it

On gov.cn, the closing date line of the State Council General Office's opinion 国办发〔2024〕1号 is written 2024年1月11日, without padding.[5]

Sources

  1. [1]GB/T 9704—2012 党政机关公文格式standard
  2. [2]cldr-json/cldr-dates-full/main/zh/ca-gregorian.jsonstandard
  3. [3]cldr-json/cldr-dates-full/main/zh-Hant/ca-gregorian.jsonstandard
  4. [4]cldr-json/cldr-dates-full/main/ja/ca-gregorian.jsonstandard
  5. [5]国务院办公厅关于发展银发经济增进老年人福祉的意见_其他_中国政府网organisation

Detection notes

New in format coverage expansion. Chinese standard date with Unicode delimiters. Transform strips Chinese characters and parses as ISO-like.

Use it

CLI · DuckDB
$ finetype infer -i "2024年1月15日" --mode column
→ datetime.date.chinese_ymd

SELECT ft_infer('2024年1月15日');
-- → 'datetime.date.chinese_ymd'
Cast expression
strptime(regexp_replace(regexp_replace(regexp_replace({col}, '年', '-'), '月', '-'), '日', ''), '%Y-%-m-%-d')::DATE

Schema

https://meridian.online/schemas/datetime.date.chinese_ymd · Frictionless type string

finetype taxonomy datetime.date.chinese_ymd -o json-schema

Aliases

cn_standard

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