European Date (slash-separated)

datetime.date.eu_slash

Day/Month/Year with slash separators. Standard format across Europe, Australia, and much of Asia. Ambiguous with US format for days 1-12.

Domain

datetime

Try it

CLI

$ finetype infer -i "15/01/2024"
→ datetime.date.eu_slash

DuckDB

Detect

SELECT finetype('15/01/2024');
-- → 'datetime.date.eu_slash'

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.eu_slash';

JSON Schema

finetype schema datetime.date.eu_slash

{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/datetime.date.eu_slash",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Day/Month/Year with slash separators. Standard format across Europe, Australia, and much of Asia. Ambiguous with US format for days 1-12.",
  "examples": [
    "15/01/2024",
    "31/12/2019"
  ],
  "maxLength": 10,
  "minLength": 10,
  "pattern": "^\\d{2}/\\d{2}/\\d{4}$",
  "title": "European Date (slash-separated)",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "DATE",
  "x-finetype-format-string": "%d/%m/%Y",
  "x-finetype-transform": "strptime({col}, '%d/%m/%Y')::DATE"
}

Examples

15/01/202431/12/2019