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UTC Offset

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UTC Offset

datetime.offset.utc

Explicit UTC offset string (e.g., "UTC +05:00"). Used in configuration files and human-readable timezone displays.

Domain datetime›offset
Casts to VARCHAR
Scope Universal

Try it

CLI 
$ finetype infer -i "UTC +05:00"
→ datetime.offset.utc

DuckDB

Detect 
SELECT finetype('UTC +05:00');
-- → 'datetime.offset.utc'
Cast expression 
{col}
Safe cast pipeline 
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS VARCHAR) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'datetime.offset.utc';

JSON Schema

finetype schema datetime.offset.utc 
{
  "$id": "https://noon.sh/schemas/datetime.offset.utc",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Explicit UTC offset string (e.g., \"UTC +05: 00\"). Used in configuration files and human-readable timezone displays.",
  "examples": [
    "UTC +05: 00",
    "UTC -08: 00",
    "UTC +00: 00"
  ],
  "pattern": "^UTC [+-]\\d{2}:\\d{2}$",
  "title": "UTC Offset",
  "type": "string"
}

Examples

UTC +05:00UTC -08:00UTC +00:00

Also known as

gmt_offset

Types in datetime