19041997may

19041997may is a nonstandard string that appears in some digital records as a concatenated date-like token. It is not recognized as a formal subject in major encyclopedias and does not refer to a widely known event, person, or place by that exact name.

In practice, such tokens arise in data management contexts where strings encode dates or time ranges without separators. The component parts can be read as 19 April 1997 and May, or as a start date of 19 April 1997 followed by the month May. Without a defined schema, the exact meaning is ambiguous and depends on the data producer. In archival and library systems, a filename like 19041997may could represent a document created on 19 April 1997 with subsequent references in May, or it could function as a cataloging code generated by a specific metadata scheme.

Normalization and interpretation are central concerns when integrating data containing such strings. Best practices include parsing the token into distinct fields (for example, a specific date and a related month, or an interval such as 1997-04-19 to 1997-05-01) and storing the original token as-provided for traceability. This approach helps enable accurate search, retrieval, and interoperability across datasets that employ nonstandard date encodings.

See also: date formats; ISO 8601; metadata; file naming conventions.