US Date (slash-separated)

datetime.date.us_slash

Month/Day/Year with slash separators. Standard US date format. Ambiguous with EU format for days 1-12 — column-mode inference uses value distribution to disambiguate.

Domain

datetime

Try it

CLI

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

DuckDB

Detect

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

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.us_slash';

JSON Schema

finetype schema datetime.date.us_slash

{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/datetime.date.us_slash",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Month/Day/Year with slash separators. Standard US date format. Ambiguous with EU format for days 1-12 — column-mode inference uses value distribution to disambiguate.",
  "examples": [
    "01/15/2024",
    "12/31/2019"
  ],
  "maxLength": 10,
  "minLength": 10,
  "pattern": "^\\d{2}/\\d{2}/\\d{4}$",
  "title": "US Date (slash-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

01/15/202412/31/2019

Aliases

formatted_date