Regex to validate date format dd/mm/yyyy

Question

I need to validate a date string for the format dd/mm/yyyy with a regular expresssion.

This regex validates dd/mm/yyyy, but not the invalid

Answer 1

Notice:

Your regexp does not work for years that "are multiples of 4 and 100, but not of 400". Years that pass that test are not leap years. For example: 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300, 2500, etc. In other words, it puts all years with the format \d\d00 in the same class of leap years, which is incorrect. – MuchToLearn

So it works properly only for [1901 - 2099] (Whew)

Answer 2

Another answer which validates day (dd) depending upon the month (mm) and the year (yyyy) (i.e., also validates 29th Feb in leap years) and allows years ranging from 0001 to 9999 (0000 in a invalid year according to the Gregorian calendar)

^(?:(?:(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])/(?:0[13578]|1[02])|(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)/(?:0[469]|11)|(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])/02)/(?!0000)\d{4}|(?:(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d)/02/(?:(?!0000)(?:[02468][048]|[13579][26])00|(?!..00)\d{2}(?:[02468][048]|[13579][26]))))$

Answer 3

I have extended the regex given by @Ofir Luzon for the formats dd-mmm-YYYY, dd/mmm/YYYY, dd.mmm.YYYY as per my requirement. Anyone else with same requirement can refer this

^(?:(?:31(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[13578]|1[02]|(?:Jan|Mar|May|Jul|Aug|Oct|Dec)))\1|(?:(?:29|30)(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[1,3-9]|1[0-2]|(?:Jan|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec))\2))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$|^(?:29(\/|-|\.)(?:0?2|(?:Feb))\3(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))))$|^(?:0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])(\/|-|\.)(?:(?:0?[1-9]|(?:Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep))|(?:1[0-2]|(?:Oct|Nov|Dec)))\4(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$

and tested for some test cases here http://regexr.com/39tr1.

For better understanding for this Regular expression refer this image:

Answer 4

((((0[13578]|1[02])\/(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[01]))|((0[469]|11)\/(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[0]))|((02)(\/(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-8]))))\/(19([6-9][0-9])|20([0-9][0-9])))|((02)\/(29)\/(19(6[048]|7[26]|8[048]|9[26])|20(0[048]|1[26]|2[048])))

will validate MM/DD/YYYY format with 1960 to 2028

if you need to extend leap year support then add

19(6[048]|7[26]|8[048]|9[26])|20(0[048]|1[26]|2[048]|3[26]|4[048])))

this is also work

^((((0[13578]|1[02])[/](0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[01]))|((0[469]|11)[/](0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[0]))|((02)([/](0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-8]))))[/](19([6-9][0-9])|20([0-9][0-9])))|((02)[/](29)[/](19(6[048]|7[26]|8[048]|9[26])|20(0[048]|1[26]|2[048])))

if you can change format mm-dd-yyyy than replace [/] to [-] also check online http://regexr.com/

Answer 5

In case you are looking for specific format, This works fine for "dd/MM/yyyy" & "dd/MMM/yyyy" date format only based on Alok answer.

function isValidDateFormatDDMMYYYY(inputDate) {
    var date_regex = /^(?:(?:31(\/)(?:0?[13578]|1[02]|(?:Jan|Mar|May|Jul|Aug|Oct|Dec)))\1|(?:(?:29|30)(\/)(?:0?[1,3-9]|1[0-2]|(?:Jan|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec))\2))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$|^(?:29(\/)(?:0?2|(?:Feb))\3(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))))$|^(?:0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])(\/)(?:(?:0?[1-9]|(?:Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep))|(?:1[0-2]|(?:Oct|Nov|Dec)))\4(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$/;
    return date_regex.test(inputDate);
}

Few examples working thru this code -

• isValidDateFormatDDMMYYYY("15/01/1999") // returns True
• isValidDateFormatDDMMYYYY("15/Jan/1999") // returns True
• isValidDateFormatDDMMYYYY("15/1/1999") // returns True
• isValidDateFormatDDMMYYYY("1/15/1999") // returns False

Thanks

Answer 6

The best way according to me is to use the Moment.js isValid() method by specifying the format and use strict parsing.

As moment.js documentation says

As of version 2.3.0, you may specify a boolean for the last argument to make Moment use strict parsing. Strict parsing requires that the format and input match exactly, including delimiters.

value = '2020-05-25';
format = 'YYYY-MM-DD';
moment(value, format, true).isValid() // true