Replace or remove date method

[jzaefferer]

This causes a ton of issues:

<input type="date">

Currently the only reasonable way to avoid issues with the native date method messing up validation is to remove the method:

delete $.validator.methods.date;

Then using, if necessary, a proper date validation method. An alternative is to ignore date inputs:

ignore: "input[type='date']"

The method as-is needs to be removed, or replaced with something that actually works. Maybe using Globalize, see #581.

[neogic]

Dear US developers - you are the only country (alongside freakin Belize - combined making up less than 6% of world population) in the world that uses mm/dd/yy. Please stop assuming this is the only format in use for dates with slashes {facepalm} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country#Map

The jQuery Validation > Date demo page still fails for dd/mm/yy dates in Chrome BTW: http://jqueryvalidation.org/date-method - try 13/12/14. We posted a workaround a year ago - see issue #549.

[stijnherreman]

I've spent some time recently researching HTML5's date and time input types. Over the years, various browsers have added and dropped support. Implementations are often partial, they differ per browser and they can add undesired behaviour.
The future of these types in the WHATWG and W3C specs is uncertain.

Another pain point is the unreliable browser support for datetime parsing, third-party libraries like Moment.js need to be used.

I'll be avoiding these types for the time being, and I wanted to share my findings so you can evaluate the future of related features in this project.

[hozza]

Is there a way to replace the date method with the dateISO method?

Edit: Yes there is, this fixes the localisation issue for me, by using the global standard, without having to change any HTML input types.

$.validator.addMethod("date", $.validator.methods.dateISO);

[jzaefferer]

You can also reuse the default message:

$.validator.addMethod("date", $.validator.methods.dateISO, $.validator.messages.date);

[dubonzi]

This validates dd/mm/yyyy dates.
Added this to jquery.validate.js

Reference(Regex): Regex to validate date format dd/mm/yyyy

dateBR: function( value, element ) {
            return this.optional(element) || /^(?:(?:31(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[13578]|1[02]))\1|(?:(?:29|30)(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[1,3-9]|1[0-2])\2))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$|^(?:29(\/|-|\.)0?2\3(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))))$|^(?:0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])(\/|-|\.)(?:(?:0?[1-9])|(?:1[0-2]))\4(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$/.test(value);
        }

messages: {
dateBR: "Data inválida."
}

classRuleSettings: {
dateBR: {dateBR: true}
}

Usage:

 $( "#editarDadosCliente" ).validate({
            rules: {
                txtdataLeiAutorizativa: {
                    dateBR: true
                }
            }
        });

[cjba7]

Guys is this still an issue? Had a look around and still cant find a decent way to check for dd/mm/yyyy and then also have a custom method to check its over 18 years ago.

[aodysseos]

This is how I validated UK dates.

function ukDateValidation( value, element ) {
        return this.optional(element) || /^(?:(?:(?:(?:31\/(?:0?[13578]|1[02]))|(?:(?:29|30)\/(?:0?[13-9]|1[0-2])))\/(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)\d{2})|(?:29\/0?2\/(?:(?:(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])|(?:1[0-2]))\/(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)\d{2}))$/.test(value);
    }

$.validator.addMethod("UKDate", ukDateValidation, "Please enter a date in the format dd/mm/yyyy.");

$.validator.addClassRules("date", { UKDate: true });

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