---
id: "date_dutch"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["datetime"]
langs: ["nl"]
quality: 100
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/date_dutch"
---

# Date with a Dutch month name (`date_dutch`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Calendar date written in Dutch with the month name, day first: 5 mei 2022 or 5 mrt 2022, optionally after the weekday (donderdag 5 mei 2022). The month is full or abbreviated, capitalised or in lower case. The month-first form mei 5, 2022 is accepted too.

- Pattern of: `date`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Date and time (datetime)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Dutch (nl)

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:(?:(?:[Mm]aandag|[Dd]insdag|[Ww]oensdag|[Dd]onderdag|[Vv]rijdag|[Zz]aterdag|[Zz]ondag),? )?(?:0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])\.? (?:[Jj]an(?:uari)?|[Ff]eb(?:ruari)?|[Mm]aart|[Mm]rt|[Aa]pr(?:il)?|[Mm]ei|[Jj]uni?|[Jj]uli?|[Aa]ug(?:ustus)?|[Ss]ep(?:tember)?|[Oo]kt(?:ober)?|[Nn]ov(?:ember)?|[Dd]ec(?:ember)?) \d{4}|(?:[Jj]an(?:uari)?|[Ff]eb(?:ruari)?|[Mm]aart|[Mm]rt|[Aa]pr(?:il)?|[Mm]ei|[Jj]uni?|[Jj]uli?|[Aa]ug(?:ustus)?|[Ss]ep(?:tember)?|[Oo]kt(?:ober)?|[Nn]ov(?:ember)?|[Dd]ec(?:ember)?) (?:0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01]), \d{4})$
```

## Examples

- `5 mei 2022` — 5 May 2022
- `woensdag 25 december 2024` — With the weekday
- `5 mrt 2022` — Abbreviated month
- `december 2024` (invalid example)
- `25 dezember 2024` (invalid example)

## Mappings

- qddate: `dt:date:nl_base`, `dt:date:nl_base_lc`, `dt:date:nl_weekday`, `dt:date:nl_weekday_lc`, `dt:date:nl_short`, `dt:date:nl_short_lc`, `dt:date:nl_rare_1`, `dt:date:nl_rare_2`

## Supported by tools

- `qddate`

## Translations

- ru: Дата с нидерландским названием месяца: Календарная дата на нидерландском языке с названием месяца, например 5 mei 2022.

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_Netherlands>
- other: <https://github.com/ivbeg/qddate/blob/v1.1.0/qddate/patterns/nl.py>

## Quality

Score 100/100.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/date_dutch.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/datetime/date_dutch.yaml>