---
id: "date_dmony"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["datetime"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 75
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/date_dmony"
---

# Date as DDMONYY (`date_dmony`)

> **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 as a two-digit day, the three-letter English month abbreviation in upper case and a two-digit year, without separators, as in 06NOV26. It is the DATE7. format of SAS and appears in exports of systems that use it. The century has to be inferred.

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

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])(?:JAN|FEB|MAR|APR|MAY|JUN|JUL|AUG|SEP|OCT|NOV|DEC)\d{2}$
```

## Examples

- `06NOV26` — 6 November 2026
- `31DEC99` — 31 December 1999
- `06NOV2026` (invalid example) — Four-digit year (DATE9.)
- `6NOV26` (invalid example) — Day without a leading zero

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage.

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