Short Date (Year-Month-Day, 2-digit year)

datetime.date.short_ymd

Two-digit year, year-first (ISO-like ordering). Dash-separated.

Domain

datetime

Try it

CLI

$ finetype infer -i "24-01-15"
→ datetime.date.short_ymd

DuckDB

Detect

SELECT finetype('24-01-15');
-- → 'datetime.date.short_ymd'

Cast expression

strptime({col}, '%y-%m-%d')::DATE
-- Format: %y-%m-%d

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.short_ymd';

JSON Schema

finetype schema datetime.date.short_ymd

{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/datetime.date.short_ymd",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Two-digit year, year-first (ISO-like ordering). Dash-separated.",
  "examples": [
    "24-01-15",
    "99-12-31"
  ],
  "maxLength": 8,
  "minLength": 8,
  "pattern": "^\\d{2}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$",
  "title": "Short Date (Year-Month-Day, 2-digit year)",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "DATE",
  "x-finetype-format-string": "%y-%m-%d",
  "x-finetype-transform": "strptime({col}, '%y-%m-%d')::DATE"
}

Examples

24-01-1599-12-31