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

# Date with an Italian month name (`date_italian`)

> **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 Italian with the month name, day first: 5 maggio 2022 or 5 mag 2022, optionally after the weekday (giovedì 5 maggio 2022). The month is full or abbreviated, capitalised or in lower case. The month-first form maggio 5, 2022 is accepted too.

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

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:(?:(?:[Ll]unedì|[Mm]artedì|[Mm]ercoledì|[Gg]iovedì|[Vv]enerdì|[Ss]abato|[Dd]omenica),? )?(?:0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01]) (?:[Gg]en(?:naio)?|[Ff]eb(?:braio)?|[Mm]ar(?:zo)?|[Aa]pr(?:ile)?|[Mm]ag(?:gio)?|[Gg]iu(?:gno)?|[Ll]ug(?:lio)?|[Aa]go(?:sto)?|[Ss]et(?:tembre)?|[Oo]tt(?:obre)?|[Nn]ov(?:embre)?|[Dd]ic(?:embre)?) \d{4}|(?:[Gg]en(?:naio)?|[Ff]eb(?:braio)?|[Mm]ar(?:zo)?|[Aa]pr(?:ile)?|[Mm]ag(?:gio)?|[Gg]iu(?:gno)?|[Ll]ug(?:lio)?|[Aa]go(?:sto)?|[Ss]et(?:tembre)?|[Oo]tt(?:obre)?|[Nn]ov(?:embre)?|[Dd]ic(?:embre)?) (?:0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01]), \d{4})$
```

## Examples

- `25 dicembre 2024` — 25 December 2024
- `mercoledì 25 dicembre 2024` — With the weekday
- `5 mag 2022` — Abbreviated month
- `dicembre 2024` (invalid example)
- `25 december 2024` (invalid example)

## Mappings

- qddate: `dt:date:it_base`, `dt:date:it_base_lc`, `dt:date:it_base_article`, `dt:date:it_base_lc_article`, `dt:date:it_rare_1`, `dt:date:it_rare_2`, `dt:date:it_weekday`, `dt:date:it_weekday_lc`, `dt:date:it_short`, `dt:date:it_short_lc`, `dt:date:it_short_monthfirst`, `dt:date:it_short_lc_monthfirst`

## Supported by tools

- `qddate`

## Translations

- ru: Дата с итальянским названием месяца: Календарная дата на итальянском языке с названием месяца, например 5 maggio 2022.

## Sources

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

## Quality

Score 100/100.

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