How do I validate yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss format

Question

I saw this fiddle for validating mm/dd/yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy but I would like to validate yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss format also how do I ensure that today is lesser than from date with the yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss format?.

this is how I have initiated my date time picker..

$("#startDate, #endDate").datetimepicker({ dateFormat: 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss'}); 

Please do help me to get this done.

Thanks

Answer 1

The date format that you have specified is ISO 8601. Most modern browsers support Date parsing of this string format. So you can do something like this.

Javascript

var iso8601 = "2013-02-01 10:00:00",
    userDate = new Date(iso8601),
    today = new Date(),
    dateTime,
    date,
    time,
    value;

// check is valid date
if (isNaN(userDate)) {
    alert("invalid userDate");
}

// check if userDate is before today
if (userDate.getDate() < today.getDate()) {
    alert("userDate is in past");
}

// check the string specifically matches "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss" and is valid
function isGregorianLeapYear(year) {
    return year % 400 === 0 || year % 100 !== 0 && year % 4 === 0;
}

function daysInGregorianMonth(year, month) {
    var days;

    if (month == 2) {
        days = 28;
        if (isGregorianLeapYear(year)) {
            days += 1;
        }
    } else {
        days = 31 - ((month - 1) % 7 % 2);
    }

    return days;
}

if (typeof iso8601 !== "string") {
    alert("not an iso8601 string");
} else {
    dateTime = iso8601.split(" ");
    if (dateTime.length !== 2) {
        alert("missing date or time element");
    } else {
        date = dateTime[0].split("-");
        if (date.length !== 3) {
            alert("incorrect number of date elements");
        } else {
            value = +date[0];
            if (date[0].length !== 4 || value < -9999 || value > 9999) {
                alert("year value is incorrect");
            }

            value = +date[1];
            if (date[1].length !== 2 || value < 1 || value > 12) {
                alert("month value is incorrect");
            }

            value = +date[2];
            if (date[2].length !== 2 || value < 1 || value > daysInGregorianMonth(+date[0], +date[1])) {
                alert("day value is incorrect");
            }
        }

        time = dateTime[1].split(":");
        if (time.length !== 3) {
            alert("incorrect number of time elements");
        } else {
            value = +time[0];
            if (time[0].length !== 2 || value < 0 || value > 23) {
                alert("hour value is incorrect");
            }

            value = +time[1];
            if (time[1].length !== 2 || value < 0 || value > 59) {
                alert("minute value is incorrect");
            }

            value = +time[2];
            if (time[2].length !== 2 || value < 0 || value > 59) {
                alert("second value is incorrect");
            }
        }
    }
}
console.log(userDate);
console.log(today);

jsFiddle