javascript regex iso datetime

Question

does anyone have a good regex pattern for matching iso datetimes?

ie: 2010-06-15T00:00:00

Answer 1

For the strict, full datetime, including milliseconds, per the W3C's take on the spec.:

//-- Complete precision:
/\d{4}-[01]\d-[0-3]\dT[0-2]\d:[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d\.\d+([+-][0-2]\d:[0-5]\d|Z)/

//-- No milliseconds:
/\d{4}-[01]\d-[0-3]\dT[0-2]\d:[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d([+-][0-2]\d:[0-5]\d|Z)/

//-- No Seconds:
/\d{4}-[01]\d-[0-3]\dT[0-2]\d:[0-5]\d([+-][0-2]\d:[0-5]\d|Z)/

//-- Putting it all together:
/(\d{4}-[01]\d-[0-3]\dT[0-2]\d:[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d\.\d+([+-][0-2]\d:[0-5]\d|Z))|(\d{4}-[01]\d-[0-3]\dT[0-2]\d:[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d([+-][0-2]\d:[0-5]\d|Z))|(\d{4}-[01]\d-[0-3]\dT[0-2]\d:[0-5]\d([+-][0-2]\d:[0-5]\d|Z))/

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Additional variations allowed by the actual ISO 8601:2004(E) doc:

/********************************************
**    No time-zone varients:
*/
//-- Complete precision:
/\d{4}-[01]\d-[0-3]\dT[0-2]\d:[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d\.\d+/

//-- No milliseconds:
/\d{4}-[01]\d-[0-3]\dT[0-2]\d:[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d/

//-- No Seconds:
/\d{4}-[01]\d-[0-3]\dT[0-2]\d:[0-5]\d/

//-- Putting it all together:
/(\d{4}-[01]\d-[0-3]\dT[0-2]\d:[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d\.\d+)|(\d{4}-[01]\d-[0-3]\dT[0-2]\d:[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d)|(\d{4}-[01]\d-[0-3]\dT[0-2]\d:[0-5]\d)/

WARNING: This all gets messy fast, and it still allows certain nonsense such as a 14th month. Additionally, ISO 8601:2004(E) allows a several other variants.

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"2010-06-15T00:00:00" isn't legal, because it doesn't have the time-zone designation.