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American Datetime

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American Datetime

datetime.timestamp.american

US-style datetime with 12-hour clock and AM/PM indicator. Month-first ordering (MM/DD/YYYY).

Domain datetime›timestamp
Casts to TIMESTAMP
Scope Universal

Try it

CLI 
$ finetype infer -i "01/15/2024 10:30 AM"
→ datetime.timestamp.american

DuckDB

Detect 
SELECT finetype('01/15/2024 10:30 AM');
-- → 'datetime.timestamp.american'
Cast expression 
strptime({col}, '%m/%d/%Y %I:%M %p')
Format: %m/%d/%Y %I:%M %p
Safe cast pipeline 
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS TIMESTAMP) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'datetime.timestamp.american';

JSON Schema

finetype schema datetime.timestamp.american 
{
  "$id": "https://noon.sh/schemas/datetime.timestamp.american",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "US-style datetime with 12-hour clock and AM/PM indicator. Month-first ordering (MM/DD/YYYY).",
  "examples": [
    "01/15/2024 10: 30 AM",
    "12/31/2019 11: 59 PM"
  ],
  "pattern": "^\\d{2}/\\d{2}/\\d{4} \\d{2}:\\d{2} [AP]M$",
  "title": "American Datetime",
  "type": "string"
}

Examples

01/15/2024 10:30 AM12/31/2019 11:59 PM

Also known as

middle_endian

Types in datetime