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UTC Offset

Explicit UTC offset string (e.g., "UTC +05:00"). Used in configuration files and human-readable timezone displays.

UTC Offset

datetime.offset.utc

Explicit UTC offset string (e.g., "UTC +05:00"). Used in configuration files and human-readable timezone displays.

Domain
datetime
Category
offset
Casts to
VARCHAR
Scope
Universal

Try it

CLI
$ finetype infer -i "UTC +05:00"
→ datetime.offset.utc

DuckDB

Detect
SELECT finetype('UTC +05:00');
-- → 'datetime.offset.utc'
Cast expression
{col}
Safe cast pipeline
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS VARCHAR) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'datetime.offset.utc';

JSON Schema

finetype schema datetime.offset.utc
{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/datetime.offset.utc",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Explicit UTC offset string (e.g., \"UTC +05: 00\"). Used in configuration files and human-readable timezone displays.",
  "examples": [
    "UTC +05: 00",
    "UTC -08: 00",
    "UTC +00: 00"
  ],
  "pattern": "^UTC [+-]\\d{2}:\\d{2}$",
  "title": "UTC Offset",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "VARCHAR",
  "x-finetype-transform": "{col}"
}

Examples

UTC +05:00UTC -08:00UTC +00:00

Aliases

gmt_offset

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