Date Parser
Parse a calendar date in an explicit format and return an ISO date.
Description
Parse a calendar date in an explicit format into normalized date fields.
Date Parser: Parse a calendar date in an explicit format into normalized date fields.
When to use Date Parser
Use this parser to convert a string in the named grammar into a structured value while making accepted syntax and failures explicit.
- Date
- Required string input.
- Date format
- Required string input.
How Date Parser works
Parse a calendar date in an explicit format into normalized date fields. The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.1
- ISO date
- The resulting iso date returned as a string.
- Year
- The resulting year returned as an integer.
- Month
- The resulting month returned as an integer.
- Day
- The resulting day returned as an integer.
- UTC timestamp
- The resulting utc timestamp returned as an integer.
Limitations and assumptions
- Parsing rules depend on locale, radix, encoding, escaping, duplicate fields, whitespace, overflow, rounding, time zone, units, and ambiguity policy. Successful parsing does not validate business meaning or make untrusted input safe.
- Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.
Alternative or Complementary approaches
Reject trailing or ambiguous content, preserve the original input, schema-validate the parsed value, and test malformed, boundary, and adversarial cases.
References
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Parsing — Wikipedia contributors
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