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YMD Date (dot-separated)

Year.Month.Day with dot separators. Unambiguous due to year-first ordering. Hungarian, Norwegian, and some East Asian administrative data.

YMD Date (dot-separated)

datetime.date.ymd_dot

Year.Month.Day with dot separators. Unambiguous due to year-first ordering. Hungarian, Norwegian, and some East Asian administrative data.

Domain
datetime
Category
date
Casts to
DATE
Scope
Universal

Try it

CLI
$ finetype infer -i "2024.01.15"
→ datetime.date.ymd_dot

DuckDB

Detect
SELECT finetype('2024.01.15');
-- → 'datetime.date.ymd_dot'
Cast expression
strptime({col}, '%Y.%m.%d')::DATE
-- Format: %Y.%m.%d
Safe cast pipeline
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS DATE) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'datetime.date.ymd_dot';

JSON Schema

finetype schema datetime.date.ymd_dot
{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/datetime.date.ymd_dot",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Year.Month.Day with dot separators. Unambiguous due to year-first ordering. Hungarian, Norwegian, and some East Asian administrative data.",
  "examples": [
    "2024.01.15",
    "2023.12.31",
    "2000.06.01"
  ],
  "maxLength": 10,
  "minLength": 10,
  "pattern": "^\\d{4}\\.\\d{2}\\.\\d{2}$",
  "title": "YMD Date (dot-separated)",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "DATE",
  "x-finetype-format-string": "%Y.%m.%d",
  "x-finetype-transform": "strptime({col}, '%Y.%m.%d')::DATE"
}

Examples

2024.01.152023.12.312000.06.01

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