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

# Date with a French month name (`date_french`)

> **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 French with the month name, day first: 5 mai 2022, le 5 mai 2022, 5 sept 2022, optionally after the weekday (jeudi 5 mai 2022). The month is full or abbreviated, capitalised or in lower case. The month-first form mai 5, 2022 is accepted too.

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

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:(?:[Ll]e |(?:[Ll]undi|[Mm]ardi|[Mm]ercredi|[Jj]eudi|[Vv]endredi|[Ss]amedi|[Dd]imanche),? )?(?:0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01]) (?:[Jj]anv(?:ier)?|[Ff]évr(?:ier)?|[Mm]ars|[Aa]vr(?:il)?|[Mm]ai|[Jj]uin|[Jj]uil(?:let)?|[Aa]oût|[Ss]ept(?:embre)?|[Oo]ct(?:obre)?|[Nn]ov(?:embre)?|[Dd]éc(?:embre)?) \d{4}|(?:[Jj]anv(?:ier)?|[Ff]évr(?:ier)?|[Mm]ars|[Aa]vr(?:il)?|[Mm]ai|[Jj]uin|[Jj]uil(?:let)?|[Aa]oût|[Ss]ept(?:embre)?|[Oo]ct(?:obre)?|[Nn]ov(?:embre)?|[Dd]éc(?:embre)?) (?:0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01]), \d{4})$
```

## Examples

- `25 décembre 2024` — 25 December 2024
- `le 25 décembre 2024` — With the article
- `mercredi 25 décembre 2024` — With the weekday
- `décembre 2024` (invalid example)
- `25 december 2024` (invalid example)

## Mappings

- qddate: `dt:date:fr_base`, `dt:date:fr_base_lc`, `dt:date:fr_base_article`, `dt:date:fr_base_lc_article`, `dt:date:fr_short`, `dt:date:fr_short_lc`, `dt:date:fr_short_monthfirst`, `dt:date:fr_short_lc_monthfirst`, `dt:date:fr_weekday`, `dt:date:fr_weekday_lc`

## Supported by tools

- `qddate`

## Translations

- ru: Дата с французским названием месяца: Календарная дата на французском языке с названием месяца, например 5 mai 2022.

## Sources

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

## Quality

Score 100/100.

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