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SQL Minute-Precision Datetime

Space-separated date and time to minute precision, without seconds or timezone (e.g. 2024-01-15 10:30). The minute-precision sibling of sql_standard; DuckDB parses it natively as a TIMESTAMP (padding :00). Common in spreadsheet and database exports that drop the seconds field.

SQL Minute-Precision Datetime

datetime.timestamp.sql_minutes

Space-separated date and time to minute precision, without seconds or timezone (e.g. 2024-01-15 10:30). The minute-precision sibling of sql_standard; DuckDB parses it natively as a TIMESTAMP (padding :00). Common in spreadsheet and database exports that drop the seconds field.

Domain
datetime
Category
timestamp
Casts to
TIMESTAMP
Scope
Universal

Try it

CLI
$ finetype infer -i "2024-01-15 10:30" --mode column
→ datetime.timestamp.sql_minutes

DuckDB

Detect
SELECT ft_infer('2024-01-15 10:30');
-- → 'datetime.timestamp.sql_minutes'
Cast expression
strptime({col}, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
-- Format: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M
Safe cast pipeline
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(ft_cast(my_column) AS TIMESTAMP) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE ft_infer(my_column) = 'datetime.timestamp.sql_minutes';

JSON Schema

finetype taxonomy datetime.timestamp.sql_minutes -o json-schema
{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/datetime.timestamp.sql_minutes",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Space-separated date and time to minute precision, without seconds or timezone (e.g. 2024-01-15 10: 30). The minute-precision sibling of sql_standard; DuckDB parses it natively as a TIMESTAMP (padding : 00). Common in spreadsheet and database exports that drop the seconds field.",
  "examples": [
    "2024-01-15 10: 30",
    "2019-12-31 23: 59"
  ],
  "maxLength": 16,
  "minLength": 16,
  "pattern": "^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2} \\d{2}:\\d{2}$",
  "title": "SQL Minute-Precision Datetime",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-label": "datetime.timestamp.sql_minutes",
  "x-finetype-pii": false
}

Canonical spec

https://www.iso.org/standard/76583.html

Examples

2024-01-15 10:302019-12-31 23:59

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