MDY Date (dash-separated)

datetime.date.mdy_dash

Month-Day-Year with dash separators and 4-digit year. US database exports. Ambiguous with dmy_dash when day <= 12.

Domain

datetime

Try it

CLI

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

DuckDB

Detect

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

Cast expression

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

JSON Schema

finetype schema datetime.date.mdy_dash

{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/datetime.date.mdy_dash",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Month-Day-Year with dash separators and 4-digit year. US database exports. Ambiguous with dmy_dash when day <= 12.",
  "examples": [
    "01-15-2024",
    "12-31-2023",
    "06-01-2000"
  ],
  "maxLength": 10,
  "minLength": 10,
  "pattern": "^\\d{2}-\\d{2}-\\d{4}$",
  "title": "MDY Date (dash-separated)",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "DATE",
  "x-finetype-format-string": "%m-%d-%Y",
  "x-finetype-transform": "strptime({col}, '%m-%d-%Y')::DATE"
}

Examples

01-15-202412-31-202306-01-2000