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Abbreviated Month Date

datetime.date.abbreviated_month

Date with three-letter abbreviated month name. Locale-specific because month abbreviations vary by language (Jan vs janv vs Gen).

Domain
datetime
Category
date
Casts to
DATE
Scope
Locale-specific
Locales
EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, PT, NL, SV, DA, NO, PL, CS, RU, JA, ZH

Try it

CLI
$ finetype infer -i "Jan 15, 2024"
→ datetime.date.abbreviated_month

DuckDB

Detect
SELECT finetype('Jan 15, 2024');
-- → 'datetime.date.abbreviated_month'
Cast expression
strptime({col}, '%b %d, %Y')::DATE
-- Format: %b %d, %Y
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.abbreviated_month';

JSON Schema

finetype schema datetime.date.abbreviated_month
{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/datetime.date.abbreviated_month",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Date with three-letter abbreviated month name. Locale-specific because month abbreviations vary by language (Jan vs janv vs Gen).",
  "examples": [
    "Jan 15, 2024",
    "15 Jan 2024",
    "Dec 31, 2019"
  ],
  "pattern": "^(?:[A-Za-z]{3,} \\d{1,2},? \\d{4}|\\d{1,2}\\.? [A-Za-z]{3,} \\d{4})$",
  "title": "Abbreviated Month Date",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "DATE",
  "x-finetype-format-string": "%b %d, %Y",
  "x-finetype-transform": "strptime({col}, '%b %d, %Y')::DATE"
}

Examples

Jan 15, 202415 Jan 2024Dec 31, 2019