DMY Date with Abbreviated Month (dash-separated)

datetime.date.dmy_dash_abbrev

Day-MonthAbbr-Year with dash separators. The Oracle NLS_DATE_FORMAT default. Extremely common in banking and financial data exports. Unambiguous due to named month.

Domain

datetime

Try it

CLI

$ finetype infer -i "15-Jan-2024"
→ datetime.date.dmy_dash_abbrev

DuckDB

Detect

SELECT finetype('15-Jan-2024');
-- → 'datetime.date.dmy_dash_abbrev'

Cast expression

strptime({col}, '%d-%b-%Y')::DATE
-- Format: %d-%b-%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.dmy_dash_abbrev';

JSON Schema

finetype schema datetime.date.dmy_dash_abbrev

{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/datetime.date.dmy_dash_abbrev",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Day-MonthAbbr-Year with dash separators. The Oracle NLS_DATE_FORMAT default. Extremely common in banking and financial data exports. Unambiguous due to named month.",
  "examples": [
    "15-Jan-2024",
    "31-Dec-2023",
    "01-Jun-2000"
  ],
  "maxLength": 11,
  "minLength": 10,
  "pattern": "^[0-3]?\\d-[A-Z][a-z]{2}-\\d{4}$",
  "title": "DMY Date with Abbreviated Month (dash-separated)",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "DATE",
  "x-finetype-format-string": "%d-%b-%Y",
  "x-finetype-transform": "strptime({col}, '%d-%b-%Y')::DATE"
}

Examples

15-Jan-202431-Dec-202301-Jun-2000

Aliases

oracle_date