24-Hour Time (HH:MM)

datetime.time.hm_24h

Hours and minutes only, no seconds. Common in schedules, timetables, and user-facing applications.

Domain

datetime

Try it

CLI

$ finetype infer -i "10:30"
→ datetime.time.hm_24h

DuckDB

Detect

SELECT finetype('10:30');
-- → 'datetime.time.hm_24h'

Cast expression

strptime({col}, '%H:%M')::TIME
-- Format: %H:%M

Safe cast pipeline

-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS TIME) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'datetime.time.hm_24h';

JSON Schema

finetype schema datetime.time.hm_24h

{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/datetime.time.hm_24h",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Hours and minutes only, no seconds. Common in schedules, timetables, and user-facing applications.",
  "examples": [
    "10: 30",
    "23: 59",
    "00: 00"
  ],
  "maxLength": 5,
  "minLength": 5,
  "pattern": "^\\d{2}:\\d{2}$",
  "title": "24-Hour Time (HH:MM)",
  "type": "string",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "TIME",
  "x-finetype-format-string": "%H:%M",
  "x-finetype-transform": "strptime({col}, '%H:%M')::TIME"
}

Examples

10:3023:5900:00