---
id: "half_year"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["datetime"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 93
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/half_year"
---

# Half-year (`half_year`)

> **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.

Half of a calendar or fiscal year, written H1 for the first half (January to June of a calendar year) or H2 for the second half.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Date and time (datetime)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[Hh][12]$
```

## Examples

- `H1`
- `H2`
- `H3` (invalid example) — a year has two halves

## Mappings

- fta: `PERIOD.HALF`

## Supported by tools

- `fta`

## Translations

- ru: Полугодие

## Sources

- other: <https://github.com/tsegall/fta/blob/main/SemanticTypes.md>

## Quality

Score 93/100. Missing: authoritative source link.

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