---
id: "date_estonian"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["datetime"]
langs: ["et"]
quality: 68
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/date_estonian"
---

# Date with a Estonian month name (`date_estonian`)

> **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 Estonian with the month name, day, month and year in the order of the CLDR long (d. MMMM y) and medium (d. MMM y) date formats of the et locale. The month is the CLDR wide or abbreviated name in the format context, written exactly as CLDR gives it, including any dot or apostrophe; no extra capitalisation variants are accepted.

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

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:(?:0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])\. (?:detsember|september|veebruar|oktoober|november|jaanuar|aprill|august|märts|juuli|juuni|mai) \d{4}|(?:0?[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])\. (?:märts|juuli|veebr|juuni|dets|sept|jaan|mai|okt|aug|nov|apr) \d{4})$
```

## Examples

- `3. oktoober 2024` — 3 October 2024, CLDR long format d. MMMM y
- `25. dets 2024` — 25 December 2024, CLDR medium format d. MMM y
- `oktoober 2024` (invalid example)

## Sources

- other: <https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr-json/blob/main/cldr-json/cldr-dates-full/main/et/ca-gregorian.json>

## Quality

Score 68/100. Missing: authoritative source link, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage.

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