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Compact Date (DDMMYYYY)

Eight-digit date with no separators, day-first.

Compact Date (DDMMYYYY)

datetime.date.compact_dmy

Eight-digit date with no separators, day-first.

Domain
datetime
Category
date
Casts to
DATE
Scope
Universal

Try it

CLI
$ finetype infer -i "15012024" --mode column
→ datetime.date.compact_dmy

DuckDB

Detect
SELECT ft_infer('15012024');
-- → 'datetime.date.compact_dmy'
Cast expression
strptime({col}, '%d%m%Y')::DATE
-- Format: %d%m%Y
Safe cast pipeline
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(ft_cast(my_column) AS DATE) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE ft_infer(my_column) = 'datetime.date.compact_dmy';

JSON Schema

finetype taxonomy datetime.date.compact_dmy -o json-schema
{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/datetime.date.compact_dmy",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Eight-digit date with no separators, day-first.",
  "examples": [
    "15012024",
    "31122019"
  ],
  "maxLength": 8,
  "minLength": 8,
  "pattern": "^\\d{8}$",
  "title": "Compact Date (DDMMYYYY)",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-label": "datetime.date.compact_dmy",
  "x-finetype-pii": false
}

Examples

1501202431122019

Aliases

numeric_dmy

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