Compact Date (DDMMYYYY)

datetime.date.compact_dmy

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

Domain

datetime

Try it

CLI

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

DuckDB

Detect

SELECT finetype('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(finetype_cast(my_column) AS DATE) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'datetime.date.compact_dmy';

JSON Schema

finetype schema datetime.date.compact_dmy

{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/datetime.date.compact_dmy",
  "$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-broad-type": "DATE",
  "x-finetype-format-string": "%d%m%Y",
  "x-finetype-transform": "strptime({col}, '%d%m%Y')::DATE"
}

Examples

1501202431122019

Aliases

numeric_dmy