Regular Expression to describe Credit Card expiry (valid thru) date - regex

I need a regular expression to validate credit card expiry date. Note that the format of the "date" is MM/YY where YY is the year without century and MM is the month (from 01 to 12). I do not need the YY to be in some limited range but only the MM.
Thank you in advance.


This regexp does the job:
(0[1-9]|1[0-2])\/[0-9]{2}
Note that it has a capturing group, depending on your regexp engine you can make it non-capturing like this:
(?:0[1-9]|1[0-2])\/[0-9]{2}


Revise the requirement on why you don't need a range for the year... because,
1. the regular expression you accepted as answer fails your acceptance criteria as "12/99900"
2. Even if you had a better regular expression, it's prone to be buggy and more maintenance work as expired date is allowed to be processed...
in general dynamic data whose limits are changing should not be validated using pattern matching -- unless the pattern changes as well


currentDate = new Date()
currenYear = currentDate.getFullYear()
ones_number = currenYear % 10
tens_number = Math.floor(currenYear % 100 / 10)
regrexStr = '^((0[1-9])|(1[0-2]))\/?((' + tens_number + '[' + ones_number + '-9])|([' + (tens_number + 1) + '-9][0-9]))$'
this can run from now on to until the end of the Earth with format MMYY or MM/YY

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Regular Expressions for dates [duplicate]

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 dates like 31/02/4500:
^(0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[\/\-](0?[1-9]|1[012])[\/\-]\d{4}$
What is a valid regex to validate dd/mm/yyyy format with leap year support?

The regex you pasted does not validate leap years correctly, but there is one that does in the same post.
I modified it to take dd/mm/yyyy, dd-mm-yyyy or dd.mm.yyyy.
^(?:(?:31(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[13578]|1[02]))\1|(?:(?:29|30)(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[13-9]|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})$
I tested it a bit in the link Arun provided in his answer and also here and it seems to work.
Edit February 14th 2019: I've removed a comma that was in the regex which allowed dates like 29-0,-11

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 https://regexr.com/39tr1.
For better understanding for this Regular expression refer this image:
Edit
Extending it for yyyy/mm/dd, yyyy-mm-dd or yyyy.mm.dd
some test cases https://regex101.com/r/3TZfyU/1
^(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})(?:(?:(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[13578]|1[02])\1(?:31))|(?:(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[13-9]|1[0-2])\2(?:29|30)))$|
^(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00)))(\/|-|\.)0?2\3(?:29)$|
^(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})(\/|-|\.)(?:(?:0?[1-9])|(?:1[0-2]))\4(?:0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])$

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) 😊
dd/MM/yyyy:
Checks if leap year.
Years from 1900 to 9999 are valid. Only dd/MM/yyyy
(^(((0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-8])[\/](0[1-9]|1[012]))|((29|30|31)[\/](0[13578]|1[02]))|((29|30)[\/](0[4,6,9]|11)))[\/](19|[2-9][0-9])\d\d$)|(^29[\/]02[\/](19|[2-9][0-9])(00|04|08|12|16|20|24|28|32|36|40|44|48|52|56|60|64|68|72|76|80|84|88|92|96)$)

try this.
^(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- /.](0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](19|20)\d\d$
you can test regular expression at http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascriptexample.html easily.

For those who look at these and get completely confused, here is an excerpt from my script. Unfortunately, all it does is match valid numbers in a date time input, and 31st Feb will be marked as valid, but as so many have said, regex really isn't the best tool to do this test.
To match a date in the format 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm' (Or indeed in whatever order you please)
var dateerrors = false;
var yearReg = '(201[4-9]|202[0-9])'; ///< Allows a number between 2014 and 2029
var monthReg = '(0[1-9]|1[0-2])'; ///< Allows a number between 00 and 12
var dayReg = '(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[0-1])'; ///< Allows a number between 00 and 31
var hourReg = '([0-1][0-9]|2[0-3])'; ///< Allows a number between 00 and 24
var minReg = '([0-5][0-9])'; ///< Allows a number between 00 and 59
var reg = new RegExp('^' + yearReg + '-' + monthReg + '-' + dayReg + ' ' + hourReg + ':' + minReg + '$', 'g');
$('input').filter(function () {return this.id.match(/myhtml_element_with_id_\d+_datetime/);}).each(function (e) {
if (e > 0) {
// Don't test the first input. This will use the default
var val = $(this).val();
if (val && !val.trim().match(reg)) {
dateerrors = true;
return false;
}
}
});
if (dateerrors) {
alert('You must enter a validate date in the format "yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM", e.g. 2019-12-31 19:30');
return false;
}
The above script starts off by building a regex object. It then finds all of the inputs whose id's match a certain pattern and then loops through these. I don't test the first input I find (if (e > 0)).
A bit of explanation:
var reg = new RegExp('^' + yearReg + '-' + monthReg + '-' + dayReg + ' ' + hourReg + ':' + minReg + '$', 'g');
^ means start of match, whereas $ means end of match.
return this.id.match(/myhtml_element_with_id_\d+_datetime/);
\d+ means match a single or a contiguous sequence of integers, so myhtml_element_with_id_56_datetime and myhtml_element_with_id_2_datetime will match, but myhtml_element_with_id_5a_datetime will not

I suspect that the following is as accurate as can be expected without knowing when the user's locale switched over from the Julian to the Gregorian calendars.
It accepts either '-', '/', or nothing as separators between year, month, and day, no matter the order.
MMddyyyy:
^(((0[13-9]|1[012])[-/]?(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|30)|(0[13578]|1[02])[-/]?31|02[-/]?(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-8]))[-/]?[0-9]{4}|02[-/]?29[-/]?([0-9]{2}(([2468][048]|[02468][48])|[13579][26])|([13579][26]|[02468][048]|0[0-9]|1[0-6])00))$
ddMMyyyy:
^(((0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|30)[-/]?(0[13-9]|1[012])|31[-/]?(0[13578]|1[02])|(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-8])[-/]?02)[-/]?[0-9]{4}|29[-/]?02[-/]?([0-9]{2}(([2468][048]|[02468][48])|[13579][26])|([13579][26]|[02468][048]|0[0-9]|1[0-6])00))$
yyyyMMdd:
^([0-9]{4}[-/]?((0[13-9]|1[012])[-/]?(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|30)|(0[13578]|1[02])[-/]?31|02[-/]?(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-8]))|([0-9]{2}(([2468][048]|[02468][48])|[13579][26])|([13579][26]|[02468][048]|0[0-9]|1[0-6])00)[-/]?02[-/]?29)$
Other than order, these all are accurate to the Julian Calendar (leap year every four years) until 1700, when the Gregorian Calendar diverges from the Julian. It has two issues:
It accepts the year 0000, which doesn't exist in many, but not all, standards. Note that ISO 8601 does accept year 0000 (equivalent to 1 BCE).
It doesn't skip the 10-13 days which were lost when the Gregorian Calendar came into use. This varies by locality though. For example, the Roman Catholic Church skipped 10 days, October 5th through October 14th, 1582, but Greece (the last to switch) skipped February 16th through the 28th of 1923, 13 days, having to take into account the leap years of 1700, 1800, and 1900.
This has been tested against Java's calendar implementation from the year 0001 until the year 9999 with the only discrepancy being the abovementioned 10 days in 1582.

Here is another version of regex to match any of the following date formats and allow leading zeros to be omitted:
Regex: ^[0-3]?[0-9].[0-3]?[0-9].(?:[0-9]{2})?[0-9]{2}$
Matches:
1/1/11 or 1.1.11 or 1-1-11 : true
01/01/11 or 01.01.11 or 01-01-11 : true
01/01/2011 or 01.01.2011 or 01-01-2011 : true
01/1/2011 or 01.1.2011 or 01-1-2011 : true
1/11/2011 or 1.11.2011 or 1-11-2011 : true
1/11/11 or 1.11.11 or 1-11-11 : true
11/1/11 or 11.1.11 or 11-1-11 : true
Debuggex Demo

year = ((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123]))
month = ((0[0-9])|(1[012]))
day = ((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))
year-month-day = (((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123]))-((0[0-9])|(1[012]))-((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01])))
day-month-year = (((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))-((0[0-9])|(1[012]))-((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123])))
year/month/day = (((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123]))\/((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\/((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01])))
month/day/year = (((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\/((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))\/((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123])))
day/month/year = (((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))\/((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\/((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123])))
day.month.year = (((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))\.((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\.((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123])))
year.month.day = (((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123]))\.((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\.((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01])))
all = (((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123]))-((0[0-9])|(1[012]))-((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01])))|(((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))-((0[0-9])|(1[012]))-((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123])))|(((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123]))\/((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\/((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01])))|(((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\/((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))\/((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123])))|(((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))\/((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\/((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123])))|(((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))\.((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\.((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123])))|(((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123]))\.((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\.((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01])))
its work for
yyyy-mm-dd
dd-mm-yyyy
yyyy/mm/dd
mm/dd/yyyy
dd/mm/yyyy
dd.mm.yyyy
yyyy.mm.dd
yy-mm-dd
dd-mm-yy
yyyy/mm/dd
mm/dd/yy
dd/mm/yy
dd.mm.yy
yy.mm.dd
but not work for where day = d or month = m, example d.m.yyyy
all example - enter link description here

Here I wrote one for dd/mm/yyyy where separator can be one of -.,/ year range 0000-9999.
It deals with leap years and is designed for regex flavors, that support lookaheads, capturing groups and backreferences. NOT valid for such as d/m/yyyy. If needed add further separators to [-.,/]
^(?=\d{2}([-.,\/])\d{2}\1\d{4}$)(?:0[1-9]|1\d|[2][0-8]|29(?!.02.(?!(?!(?:[02468][1-35-79]|[13579][0-13-57-9])00)\d{2}(?:[02468][048]|[13579][26])))|30(?!.02)|31(?=.(?:0[13578]|10|12))).(?:0[1-9]|1[012]).\d{4}$
Test at regex101; as a Java string:
"^(?=\\d{2}([-.,\\/])\\d{2}\\1\\d{4}$)(?:0[1-9]|1\\d|[2][0-8]|29(?!.02.(?!(?!(?:[02468][1-35-79]|[13579][0-13-57-9])00)\\d{2}(?:[02468][048]|[13579][26])))|30(?!.02)|31(?=.(?:0[13578]|10|12))).(?:0[1-9]|1[012]).\\d{4}$"
explained:
(?x) # modifier x: free spacing mode (for comments)
# verify date dd/mm/yyyy; possible separators: -.,/
# valid year range: 0000-9999
^ # start anchor
# precheck xx-xx-xxxx,... add new separators here
(?=\d{2}([-.,\/])\d{2}\1\d{4}$)
(?: # day-check: non caturing group
# days 01-28
0[1-9]|1\d|[2][0-8]|
# february 29d check for leap year: all 4y / 00 years: only each 400
# 0400,0800,1200,1600,2000,...
29
(?!.02. # not if feb: if not ...
(?!
# 00 years: exclude !0 %400 years
(?!(?:[02468][1-35-79]|[13579][0-13-57-9])00)
# 00,04,08,12,...
\d{2}(?:[02468][048]|[13579][26])
)
)|
# d30 negative lookahead: february cannot have 30 days
30(?!.02)|
# d31 positive lookahead: month up to 31 days
31(?=.(?:0[13578]|10|12))
) # eof day-check
# month 01-12
.(?:0[1-9]|1[012])
# year 0000-9999
.\d{4}
$ # end anchor
Also see SO Regex FAQ; Please let me know, if it fails.

Found this reg ex here
^(((0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])\/(0[13578]|1[02])\/((19|[2-9]\d)\d{2}))|((0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)\/(0[13456789]|1[012])\/((19|[2-9]\d)\d{2}))|((0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])\/02\/((19|[2-9]\d)\d{2}))|(29\/02\/((1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)(0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|((16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))))$
This validates the format mm/dd/yyyy and valid dates correctly (but not m/d/yyyy).
Some tests

"^(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- /.](0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.]((19|20)\\d\\d)$"
will validate any date between 1900-2099

The following expression is nice and easy to manipulate:
((((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[0-9]|1[0-4])))|((02)(\/|-|.)(29)(\/|-|.)(19(6[048]|7[26]|8[048]|9[26])|20(0[048]|1[26])))
It validates according to the MM/dd/YYYY format and allows for leap year support from 1960 to 2016. If you need the leap year support extended you need only manipulate this part of the expression:
(19(6[048]|7[26]|8[048]|9[26])|20(0[048]|1[26]))
Hope this helped you a lot

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]))))$

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

Further extended the regex given by #AlokChaudhary to support:
1. dd mmm YYYY (in addition to dd-mmm-YYYY, dd/mmm/YYYY, dd.mmm.YYYY).
2. mmm in all CAPITAL LETTERS format (in addition to Title format)
dd mmm YYYY e.g. 30 Apr 2026 or 24 DEC 2028 are popular.
Extended regex:
(^(?:(?:(?:31(?:(?:([-.\/])(?:0?[13578]|1[02])\1)|(?:([-.\/ ])(?:Jan|JAN|Mar|MAR|May|MAY|Jul|JUL|Aug|AUG|Oct|OCT|Dec|DEC)\2)))|(?:(?:29|30)(?:(?:([-.\/])(?:0?[13-9]|1[0-2])\3)|(?:([-.\/ ])(?:Jan|JAN|Mar|MAR|Apr|APR|May|MAY|Jun|JUN|Jul|JUL|Aug|AUG|Sep|SEP|Oct|OCT|Nov|NOV|Dec|DEC)\4))))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2}))$|^(?:29(?:(?:([-.\/])(?:0?2)\5)|(?:([-.\/ ])(?:Feb|FEB)\6))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00)))$|^(?:(?:0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])(?:(?:([-.\/])(?:(?:0?[1-9]|(?:1[0-2])))\7)|(?:([-.\/ ])(?:Jan|JAN|Feb|FEB|Mar|MAR|May|MAY|Jul|JUL|Aug|AUG|Oct|OCT|Dec|DEC)\8))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2}))$)
Test cases included in the Regex Demo
Features (retained):
Leap year checking (Feb 29 validation) includes the logics: (divisible by 4 but not divisible by 100) or (divisible by 400)
Supports years 1600 ~ 9999
Supports dd/mm/YYYY, dd-mm-YYYY, dd.mm.YYYY (but not dd mm YYYY)
Supports dd mmm YYYY, dd-mmm-YYYY, dd/mmm/YYYY, dd.mmm.YYYY (dd mmm YYYY newly added. mmm can be in CAPITAL e.g. DEC or Title format e.g. Dec)
Some additional minor touch-up as follows:
Included the fix by Ofir Luzon on February 14th 2019 to remove a comma that was in the regex which allowed dates like 29-0,-11 [error replicated to Alok Chaudhary's regex]
Replaced (\/|-|\.) by ([-.\/]) to minimize the use of backslash. \/ is still used in order to support some regex flavor e.g. PCRE(PHP) although some other regex flavor e.g. Python can simply use / inside the character class [ ]
Added a pair of parenthesis () surrounding the whole regex to make it a capturing group for the whole matching string. This is useful for people using findAll type of functions to get a matching item list (e.g. re.findall in Python). This enable us to capture all the matching strings within a mult-line string with the following codes:
re.findall sample codes:
match_list = re.findall(regex, source_string)
for item in match_list:
print(item[0])
Extended regex image:
Credits should go to Ofir Luzon and Alok Chaudhary who created such excellent regexes for us all!

I'm working with an API that only accepts MM/DD/YYYY format. I couldn't find any other post that did leap years quite as well as Ofir's answer, so I tweaked it and am re-posting it here for anyone that might need it.
/^(?:(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])(\/)31)\1|(?:(?:0[1,3-9]|1[0-2])(\/)(?:29|30)\2))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$|^(?:02(\/)29\3(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))))$|^(?:(?:0?[1-9])|(?:1[0-2]))(\/)(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])\4(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$/

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

import re
expression = "Nov 05 20:10:09 2020"
reg_ex = r'((Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec) ([0-2][0-9]|(3)[0-1]) (([0-1][0-9]|2[0-3]):([0-5][0-9]):([0-5][0-9])) (\d{4}))'
assert re.fullmatch(reg_ex, expression), True
Expaination with respect to given Example
Nov = A group of possible months i.e. (Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)
05 = A group of valid days i.e. ([0-2][0-9]|(3)[0-1])
20:10:09 = A group for getting valid Hours : ([0-1][0-9]|2[0-3]), Minutes : ([0-5][0-9]) and Seconds : ([0-5][0-9])
2020 = A group for getting year i.e (\d{4}))

Please Following Expression
Regex regex = new Regex(#"(((0|1)[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[0-1])\/(0[1-9]|1[0-2])\/((19|20)\d\d))$");

((((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/

For date MM/DD/YYYY you can use
^((((0[13578])|([13578])|(1[02]))[\/](([1-9])|([0-2][0-9])|(3[01])))|(((0[469])|([469])|(11))[\/](([1-9])|([0-2][0-9])|(30)))|((2|02)[\/](([1-9])|([0-2][0-9]))))[\/]\d{4}$|^\d{4}$
It verify proper days and moths.
Remeber that you can check your regular expression at
regex101
which i recommend :)
Have fun!

^(((([13578]|0[13578]|1[02])[-](0[1-9]|[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[01]))|(([469]|0[469]|11)[-]([1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[0]))|((2|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])))
this regex will validate dates in format:
12-30-2016 (mm-dd-yyyy) or 12-3-2016 (mm-d-yyyy) or
1-3-2016 (m-d-yyyy) or 1-30-2016 (m-dd-yyyy)

I know it is a tangential answer to the question, but if the intention of the question is 'how do I validate a date?', then why not try letting the programming language do all the hard work (if you are using a language that can)?
e.g. in php
$this_date_object = date_create($this_date);
if ($this_date_object == false )
{
// process the error
}

For use only for the day:
<input placeholder="day" maxlength="2" minlength="1" formControlName="birthDay"
name="birthDay"pattern="(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[0-1])" >/
For use only for the month:
<input placeholder="month" maxlength="2" minlength="1"
formControlName="month" name="month" formControlName="month" name="month" pattern="(0[1-
9]|1[0-2])">/

I know it's been a long time since this was answered, but maybe this could help someone else. The thing is that i wanted to, also, check the year, and let some past years match too. This regex match dates formated as "DD-MM-YYYY". So this function will return a regex:
const check_year = "01-01-2021"
console.log(get_regex())
console.log(check_year.match(get_regex()))
function get_regex(){
let actual_year = `${new Date().getFullYear()}`
let regex = new RegExp()
let split_year = actual_year.split("")
let year_regex = `${split_year[0]}[0-${split_year[1]}][0-${split_year[2]}][0-${split_year[3]}]$`
let day_month_regex = "^([1-2][0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9])[-]([1][0-2]|0?[1-9])[-]"
regex.compile(day_month_regex+year_regex, "g")
return regex
}

simple function for python
def is_valid_date(date_text):
pattern = re.compile('\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$')
return pattern.match(date_text)

This is a regex to match strings of the date format, YYYY-MM-DD, with different kind of separators. It matches a string even in sentences, and with dates ending with st, nd and others.
As an example, it matches the date in these sentences:
"Her birthday is 2022 February 23rd; I will present here a gift."
"Her birthday is 2022 Feb 23rd; I will present here a gift."
"Her birthday is 2022 02 23; I will present here a gift."
This is the date regex:
"\b
(?<YYYY>[0-9]{4})
(?<!0000)(?<sep>[ /.,-])
(?|
(?:(?<MM>0[13578]|1[02]|Jan(?:uary)?|Mar(?:ch)?|May|Jul(?:y)?|Aug(?:ust)?|Oct(?:ober)?|Dec(?:ember)?)\g{sep}(?<DD>0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01]))|
(?:(?<MM>0[469]|11|Apr(?:il)?|Jun(?:e)?|Sep(?:tember)?|Nov(?:ember)?)\g{sep}(?<DD>0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|30))|
(?:(?<MM>02|Feb(?:ruary)?)\g{sep}(?<DD>0[1-9]|[12][0-9]))
)
(?:
(?<=[023][1])st|
(?<=[02][2])nd|
(?<=[02][3])rd|
(?<=(?:0[4-9])|(?:1[0-9])|20|(?:2[4-9])|30)th
)?
[,;.]?
\b"x
IMHO, it makes no sense for a regex to check for a leap year, when a simple, clear and understandable one-liner can be written for it:
is_leap_year(y) = ((y%4 == 0) && (y%100 != 0)) || (y%400 == 0)
Regexes are for matching strings and not for carrying out calculation. The best way is to match the string and then pass the captured MM group to the is_leap_year function if its 02, Feb or February, to validate the string.

Date format comparmission

I have question. I am trying to prepare date regex comparmission. The problem is month and day if its one digit it can be present as 03 or 3 for both month and day. For instance possible values:
2015/03/27 or 2015/4/12 or 2015/07/05 or 2015/2/2 or 2015/02/3
What i did so far is:
^(?<Month>\d(0([0-1]|1[0-2])|([1-12])){1,2})/(?<Day>\d{1,2})/(?<Year>(?:\d{4}|\d{2}))$
I started to make now for month:
(?<Month>\d(0([0-1]|1[0-2])|([1-12])){1,2})
(0([0-1]|1[0-2])|([1-12])){1,2})
so {1,2} - because can be one digit or two for instance (12, 2, 02)
0([0-1]|1[0-2]) | ([1-12])) - because can be two digits or one
somehow i cant figure it into the final version.
Can you help me out?

Using just \d, you might end up with fake dates, like 12/67/4567.
Also, your input has another date format: Year/Month/Day.
I suggest using this regex for your input format:
^(?<Year>(?:19|20)\d{2})\/(?<Month>0?[1-9]|1[0-2])\/(?<Day>3[01]|0?[1-9]|[12][0-9])$
See demo
Optional 0s are made possible due to the ? quantifier after 0.
If it is for .NET, you do not have to escape /s.
To validate the date, use the classes and methods of the programming environment you are using. Here is an example in C#:
var resultFromRegex = "2015/03/27";
DateTime validDate;
var isValid = DateTime.TryParseExact(resultFromRegex, "yyyy/MM/dd", new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US"), System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.None, out validDate);

date regex which validates 3 different formats

I need a regex for date string which validates
YYYY:MM:DD:HH
YYYY:MM:DD:HH:mm
YYYY:MM:DD:HH:mm:ss
means all 3 formats are valid.
Can someone help me with this ?
I have
d\d\d\d:(0\d|1[012]):([012]\d|3[01]):([01]\d|2[0-3])$ YYYY:MM:DD:HH
^\d\d\d\d:(0\d|1[012]):([012]\d|3[01]):([01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d$ YYYY:MM:DD:HH:MM
^\d\d\d\d:(0\d|1[012]):([012]\d|3[01]):([01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d$ YYYY:MM:DD:HH:MM:SS
These 3 regex and needs to be combine in one

this is your pattern
YYYY:MM:DD:HH(:mm(:ss)?)?
? means 0 or 1 time
you can test it here

I kept your year month day expression d\d\d\d:(0\d|1[012]):([012]\d|3[01]):([01]\d|2[0-3]). Since your hour and minute expressions where the same :[0-5]\d I just required them to appear zero, once or twice with.
The resulting expression is:
^\d\d\d\d:(0\d|1[012]):([012]\d|3[01]):([01]\d|2[0-3])(:[0-5]\d){0,2}$
This expression by francis-gagnon is a slight modification to prevent edge cases where the day or month is expressed as 00.
^\d\d\d\d:(0[1-9]|1[012]):(0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01]):([01]\d|2[0-3])(:[0-5]\d){0,2}$
If you're looking to also check the date is valid then you could use something like this monster which will test each date position to it's valid and that the time will fit into 24 hour clock:
^(?:(?:(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00)))(:|\/|-|\.)(?:0?2\1(?:29)))|(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})(:|\/|-|\.)(?:(?:(?:0?[13578]|1[02])\2(?:31))|(?:(?:0?[13-9]|1[0-2])\2(?:29|30))|(?:(?:0?[1-9])|(?:1[0-2]))\2(?:0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8]))))(?::(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]))?(?::[0-5]\d){0,2}$

\d{4}:[0-1][0-9]:[0-3][0-9](?::[0-5][0-9](?::[0-5][0-9])?)?

Regex to validate date formats dd/mm/YYYY, dd-mm-YYYY, dd.mm.YYYY, dd mmm YYYY, dd-mmm-YYYY, dd/mmm/YYYY, dd.mmm.YYYY with Leap Year Support

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 dates like 31/02/4500:
^(0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[\/\-](0?[1-9]|1[012])[\/\-]\d{4}$
What is a valid regex to validate dd/mm/yyyy format with leap year support?

The regex you pasted does not validate leap years correctly, but there is one that does in the same post.
I modified it to take dd/mm/yyyy, dd-mm-yyyy or dd.mm.yyyy.
^(?:(?:31(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[13578]|1[02]))\1|(?:(?:29|30)(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[13-9]|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})$
I tested it a bit in the link Arun provided in his answer and also here and it seems to work.
Edit February 14th 2019: I've removed a comma that was in the regex which allowed dates like 29-0,-11

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 https://regexr.com/39tr1.
For better understanding for this Regular expression refer this image:
Edit
Extending it for yyyy/mm/dd, yyyy-mm-dd or yyyy.mm.dd
some test cases https://regex101.com/r/3TZfyU/1
^(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})(?:(?:(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[13578]|1[02])\1(?:31))|(?:(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[13-9]|1[0-2])\2(?:29|30)))$|
^(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00)))(\/|-|\.)0?2\3(?:29)$|
^(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})(\/|-|\.)(?:(?:0?[1-9])|(?:1[0-2]))\4(?:0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])$

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) 😊
dd/MM/yyyy:
Checks if leap year.
Years from 1900 to 9999 are valid. Only dd/MM/yyyy
(^(((0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-8])[\/](0[1-9]|1[012]))|((29|30|31)[\/](0[13578]|1[02]))|((29|30)[\/](0[4,6,9]|11)))[\/](19|[2-9][0-9])\d\d$)|(^29[\/]02[\/](19|[2-9][0-9])(00|04|08|12|16|20|24|28|32|36|40|44|48|52|56|60|64|68|72|76|80|84|88|92|96)$)

try this.
^(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- /.](0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](19|20)\d\d$
you can test regular expression at http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascriptexample.html easily.

For those who look at these and get completely confused, here is an excerpt from my script. Unfortunately, all it does is match valid numbers in a date time input, and 31st Feb will be marked as valid, but as so many have said, regex really isn't the best tool to do this test.
To match a date in the format 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm' (Or indeed in whatever order you please)
var dateerrors = false;
var yearReg = '(201[4-9]|202[0-9])'; ///< Allows a number between 2014 and 2029
var monthReg = '(0[1-9]|1[0-2])'; ///< Allows a number between 00 and 12
var dayReg = '(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[0-1])'; ///< Allows a number between 00 and 31
var hourReg = '([0-1][0-9]|2[0-3])'; ///< Allows a number between 00 and 24
var minReg = '([0-5][0-9])'; ///< Allows a number between 00 and 59
var reg = new RegExp('^' + yearReg + '-' + monthReg + '-' + dayReg + ' ' + hourReg + ':' + minReg + '$', 'g');
$('input').filter(function () {return this.id.match(/myhtml_element_with_id_\d+_datetime/);}).each(function (e) {
if (e > 0) {
// Don't test the first input. This will use the default
var val = $(this).val();
if (val && !val.trim().match(reg)) {
dateerrors = true;
return false;
}
}
});
if (dateerrors) {
alert('You must enter a validate date in the format "yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM", e.g. 2019-12-31 19:30');
return false;
}
The above script starts off by building a regex object. It then finds all of the inputs whose id's match a certain pattern and then loops through these. I don't test the first input I find (if (e > 0)).
A bit of explanation:
var reg = new RegExp('^' + yearReg + '-' + monthReg + '-' + dayReg + ' ' + hourReg + ':' + minReg + '$', 'g');
^ means start of match, whereas $ means end of match.
return this.id.match(/myhtml_element_with_id_\d+_datetime/);
\d+ means match a single or a contiguous sequence of integers, so myhtml_element_with_id_56_datetime and myhtml_element_with_id_2_datetime will match, but myhtml_element_with_id_5a_datetime will not

I suspect that the following is as accurate as can be expected without knowing when the user's locale switched over from the Julian to the Gregorian calendars.
It accepts either '-', '/', or nothing as separators between year, month, and day, no matter the order.
MMddyyyy:
^(((0[13-9]|1[012])[-/]?(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|30)|(0[13578]|1[02])[-/]?31|02[-/]?(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-8]))[-/]?[0-9]{4}|02[-/]?29[-/]?([0-9]{2}(([2468][048]|[02468][48])|[13579][26])|([13579][26]|[02468][048]|0[0-9]|1[0-6])00))$
ddMMyyyy:
^(((0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|30)[-/]?(0[13-9]|1[012])|31[-/]?(0[13578]|1[02])|(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-8])[-/]?02)[-/]?[0-9]{4}|29[-/]?02[-/]?([0-9]{2}(([2468][048]|[02468][48])|[13579][26])|([13579][26]|[02468][048]|0[0-9]|1[0-6])00))$
yyyyMMdd:
^([0-9]{4}[-/]?((0[13-9]|1[012])[-/]?(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|30)|(0[13578]|1[02])[-/]?31|02[-/]?(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-8]))|([0-9]{2}(([2468][048]|[02468][48])|[13579][26])|([13579][26]|[02468][048]|0[0-9]|1[0-6])00)[-/]?02[-/]?29)$
Other than order, these all are accurate to the Julian Calendar (leap year every four years) until 1700, when the Gregorian Calendar diverges from the Julian. It has two issues:
It accepts the year 0000, which doesn't exist in many, but not all, standards. Note that ISO 8601 does accept year 0000 (equivalent to 1 BCE).
It doesn't skip the 10-13 days which were lost when the Gregorian Calendar came into use. This varies by locality though. For example, the Roman Catholic Church skipped 10 days, October 5th through October 14th, 1582, but Greece (the last to switch) skipped February 16th through the 28th of 1923, 13 days, having to take into account the leap years of 1700, 1800, and 1900.
This has been tested against Java's calendar implementation from the year 0001 until the year 9999 with the only discrepancy being the abovementioned 10 days in 1582.

Here is another version of regex to match any of the following date formats and allow leading zeros to be omitted:
Regex: ^[0-3]?[0-9].[0-3]?[0-9].(?:[0-9]{2})?[0-9]{2}$
Matches:
1/1/11 or 1.1.11 or 1-1-11 : true
01/01/11 or 01.01.11 or 01-01-11 : true
01/01/2011 or 01.01.2011 or 01-01-2011 : true
01/1/2011 or 01.1.2011 or 01-1-2011 : true
1/11/2011 or 1.11.2011 or 1-11-2011 : true
1/11/11 or 1.11.11 or 1-11-11 : true
11/1/11 or 11.1.11 or 11-1-11 : true
Debuggex Demo

year = ((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123]))
month = ((0[0-9])|(1[012]))
day = ((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))
year-month-day = (((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123]))-((0[0-9])|(1[012]))-((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01])))
day-month-year = (((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))-((0[0-9])|(1[012]))-((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123])))
year/month/day = (((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123]))\/((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\/((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01])))
month/day/year = (((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\/((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))\/((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123])))
day/month/year = (((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))\/((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\/((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123])))
day.month.year = (((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))\.((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\.((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123])))
year.month.day = (((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123]))\.((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\.((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01])))
all = (((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123]))-((0[0-9])|(1[012]))-((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01])))|(((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))-((0[0-9])|(1[012]))-((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123])))|(((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123]))\/((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\/((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01])))|(((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\/((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))\/((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123])))|(((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))\/((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\/((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123])))|(((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01]))\.((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\.((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123])))|(((20[012]\d|19\d\d)|(1\d|2[0123]))\.((0[0-9])|(1[012]))\.((0[1-9])|([12][0-9])|(3[01])))
its work for
yyyy-mm-dd
dd-mm-yyyy
yyyy/mm/dd
mm/dd/yyyy
dd/mm/yyyy
dd.mm.yyyy
yyyy.mm.dd
yy-mm-dd
dd-mm-yy
yyyy/mm/dd
mm/dd/yy
dd/mm/yy
dd.mm.yy
yy.mm.dd
but not work for where day = d or month = m, example d.m.yyyy
all example - enter link description here

Here I wrote one for dd/mm/yyyy where separator can be one of -.,/ year range 0000-9999.
It deals with leap years and is designed for regex flavors, that support lookaheads, capturing groups and backreferences. NOT valid for such as d/m/yyyy. If needed add further separators to [-.,/]
^(?=\d{2}([-.,\/])\d{2}\1\d{4}$)(?:0[1-9]|1\d|[2][0-8]|29(?!.02.(?!(?!(?:[02468][1-35-79]|[13579][0-13-57-9])00)\d{2}(?:[02468][048]|[13579][26])))|30(?!.02)|31(?=.(?:0[13578]|10|12))).(?:0[1-9]|1[012]).\d{4}$
Test at regex101; as a Java string:
"^(?=\\d{2}([-.,\\/])\\d{2}\\1\\d{4}$)(?:0[1-9]|1\\d|[2][0-8]|29(?!.02.(?!(?!(?:[02468][1-35-79]|[13579][0-13-57-9])00)\\d{2}(?:[02468][048]|[13579][26])))|30(?!.02)|31(?=.(?:0[13578]|10|12))).(?:0[1-9]|1[012]).\\d{4}$"
explained:
(?x) # modifier x: free spacing mode (for comments)
# verify date dd/mm/yyyy; possible separators: -.,/
# valid year range: 0000-9999
^ # start anchor
# precheck xx-xx-xxxx,... add new separators here
(?=\d{2}([-.,\/])\d{2}\1\d{4}$)
(?: # day-check: non caturing group
# days 01-28
0[1-9]|1\d|[2][0-8]|
# february 29d check for leap year: all 4y / 00 years: only each 400
# 0400,0800,1200,1600,2000,...
29
(?!.02. # not if feb: if not ...
(?!
# 00 years: exclude !0 %400 years
(?!(?:[02468][1-35-79]|[13579][0-13-57-9])00)
# 00,04,08,12,...
\d{2}(?:[02468][048]|[13579][26])
)
)|
# d30 negative lookahead: february cannot have 30 days
30(?!.02)|
# d31 positive lookahead: month up to 31 days
31(?=.(?:0[13578]|10|12))
) # eof day-check
# month 01-12
.(?:0[1-9]|1[012])
# year 0000-9999
.\d{4}
$ # end anchor
Also see SO Regex FAQ; Please let me know, if it fails.

Found this reg ex here
^(((0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])\/(0[13578]|1[02])\/((19|[2-9]\d)\d{2}))|((0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)\/(0[13456789]|1[012])\/((19|[2-9]\d)\d{2}))|((0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])\/02\/((19|[2-9]\d)\d{2}))|(29\/02\/((1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)(0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|((16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))))$
This validates the format mm/dd/yyyy and valid dates correctly (but not m/d/yyyy).
Some tests

"^(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- /.](0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.]((19|20)\\d\\d)$"
will validate any date between 1900-2099

The following expression is nice and easy to manipulate:
((((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[0-9]|1[0-4])))|((02)(\/|-|.)(29)(\/|-|.)(19(6[048]|7[26]|8[048]|9[26])|20(0[048]|1[26])))
It validates according to the MM/dd/YYYY format and allows for leap year support from 1960 to 2016. If you need the leap year support extended you need only manipulate this part of the expression:
(19(6[048]|7[26]|8[048]|9[26])|20(0[048]|1[26]))
Hope this helped you a lot

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]))))$

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

Further extended the regex given by #AlokChaudhary to support:
1. dd mmm YYYY (in addition to dd-mmm-YYYY, dd/mmm/YYYY, dd.mmm.YYYY).
2. mmm in all CAPITAL LETTERS format (in addition to Title format)
dd mmm YYYY e.g. 30 Apr 2026 or 24 DEC 2028 are popular.
Extended regex:
(^(?:(?:(?:31(?:(?:([-.\/])(?:0?[13578]|1[02])\1)|(?:([-.\/ ])(?:Jan|JAN|Mar|MAR|May|MAY|Jul|JUL|Aug|AUG|Oct|OCT|Dec|DEC)\2)))|(?:(?:29|30)(?:(?:([-.\/])(?:0?[13-9]|1[0-2])\3)|(?:([-.\/ ])(?:Jan|JAN|Mar|MAR|Apr|APR|May|MAY|Jun|JUN|Jul|JUL|Aug|AUG|Sep|SEP|Oct|OCT|Nov|NOV|Dec|DEC)\4))))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2}))$|^(?:29(?:(?:([-.\/])(?:0?2)\5)|(?:([-.\/ ])(?:Feb|FEB)\6))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00)))$|^(?:(?:0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])(?:(?:([-.\/])(?:(?:0?[1-9]|(?:1[0-2])))\7)|(?:([-.\/ ])(?:Jan|JAN|Feb|FEB|Mar|MAR|May|MAY|Jul|JUL|Aug|AUG|Oct|OCT|Dec|DEC)\8))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2}))$)
Test cases included in the Regex Demo
Features (retained):
Leap year checking (Feb 29 validation) includes the logics: (divisible by 4 but not divisible by 100) or (divisible by 400)
Supports years 1600 ~ 9999
Supports dd/mm/YYYY, dd-mm-YYYY, dd.mm.YYYY (but not dd mm YYYY)
Supports dd mmm YYYY, dd-mmm-YYYY, dd/mmm/YYYY, dd.mmm.YYYY (dd mmm YYYY newly added. mmm can be in CAPITAL e.g. DEC or Title format e.g. Dec)
Some additional minor touch-up as follows:
Included the fix by Ofir Luzon on February 14th 2019 to remove a comma that was in the regex which allowed dates like 29-0,-11 [error replicated to Alok Chaudhary's regex]
Replaced (\/|-|\.) by ([-.\/]) to minimize the use of backslash. \/ is still used in order to support some regex flavor e.g. PCRE(PHP) although some other regex flavor e.g. Python can simply use / inside the character class [ ]
Added a pair of parenthesis () surrounding the whole regex to make it a capturing group for the whole matching string. This is useful for people using findAll type of functions to get a matching item list (e.g. re.findall in Python). This enable us to capture all the matching strings within a mult-line string with the following codes:
re.findall sample codes:
match_list = re.findall(regex, source_string)
for item in match_list:
print(item[0])
Extended regex image:
Credits should go to Ofir Luzon and Alok Chaudhary who created such excellent regexes for us all!

I'm working with an API that only accepts MM/DD/YYYY format. I couldn't find any other post that did leap years quite as well as Ofir's answer, so I tweaked it and am re-posting it here for anyone that might need it.
/^(?:(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])(\/)31)\1|(?:(?:0[1,3-9]|1[0-2])(\/)(?:29|30)\2))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$|^(?:02(\/)29\3(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))))$|^(?:(?:0?[1-9])|(?:1[0-2]))(\/)(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])\4(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$/

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

import re
expression = "Nov 05 20:10:09 2020"
reg_ex = r'((Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec) ([0-2][0-9]|(3)[0-1]) (([0-1][0-9]|2[0-3]):([0-5][0-9]):([0-5][0-9])) (\d{4}))'
assert re.fullmatch(reg_ex, expression), True
Expaination with respect to given Example
Nov = A group of possible months i.e. (Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)
05 = A group of valid days i.e. ([0-2][0-9]|(3)[0-1])
20:10:09 = A group for getting valid Hours : ([0-1][0-9]|2[0-3]), Minutes : ([0-5][0-9]) and Seconds : ([0-5][0-9])
2020 = A group for getting year i.e (\d{4}))

Please Following Expression
Regex regex = new Regex(#"(((0|1)[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[0-1])\/(0[1-9]|1[0-2])\/((19|20)\d\d))$");

((((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/

For date MM/DD/YYYY you can use
^((((0[13578])|([13578])|(1[02]))[\/](([1-9])|([0-2][0-9])|(3[01])))|(((0[469])|([469])|(11))[\/](([1-9])|([0-2][0-9])|(30)))|((2|02)[\/](([1-9])|([0-2][0-9]))))[\/]\d{4}$|^\d{4}$
It verify proper days and moths.
Remeber that you can check your regular expression at
regex101
which i recommend :)
Have fun!

^(((([13578]|0[13578]|1[02])[-](0[1-9]|[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[01]))|(([469]|0[469]|11)[-]([1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[0]))|((2|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])))
this regex will validate dates in format:
12-30-2016 (mm-dd-yyyy) or 12-3-2016 (mm-d-yyyy) or
1-3-2016 (m-d-yyyy) or 1-30-2016 (m-dd-yyyy)

I know it is a tangential answer to the question, but if the intention of the question is 'how do I validate a date?', then why not try letting the programming language do all the hard work (if you are using a language that can)?
e.g. in php
$this_date_object = date_create($this_date);
if ($this_date_object == false )
{
// process the error
}

For use only for the day:
<input placeholder="day" maxlength="2" minlength="1" formControlName="birthDay"
name="birthDay"pattern="(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9]|3[0-1])" >/
For use only for the month:
<input placeholder="month" maxlength="2" minlength="1"
formControlName="month" name="month" formControlName="month" name="month" pattern="(0[1-
9]|1[0-2])">/

I know it's been a long time since this was answered, but maybe this could help someone else. The thing is that i wanted to, also, check the year, and let some past years match too. This regex match dates formated as "DD-MM-YYYY". So this function will return a regex:
const check_year = "01-01-2021"
console.log(get_regex())
console.log(check_year.match(get_regex()))
function get_regex(){
let actual_year = `${new Date().getFullYear()}`
let regex = new RegExp()
let split_year = actual_year.split("")
let year_regex = `${split_year[0]}[0-${split_year[1]}][0-${split_year[2]}][0-${split_year[3]}]$`
let day_month_regex = "^([1-2][0-9]|3[0-1]|0?[1-9])[-]([1][0-2]|0?[1-9])[-]"
regex.compile(day_month_regex+year_regex, "g")
return regex
}

simple function for python
def is_valid_date(date_text):
pattern = re.compile('\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$')
return pattern.match(date_text)

This is a regex to match strings of the date format, YYYY-MM-DD, with different kind of separators. It matches a string even in sentences, and with dates ending with st, nd and others.
As an example, it matches the date in these sentences:
"Her birthday is 2022 February 23rd; I will present here a gift."
"Her birthday is 2022 Feb 23rd; I will present here a gift."
"Her birthday is 2022 02 23; I will present here a gift."
This is the date regex:
"\b
(?<YYYY>[0-9]{4})
(?<!0000)(?<sep>[ /.,-])
(?|
(?:(?<MM>0[13578]|1[02]|Jan(?:uary)?|Mar(?:ch)?|May|Jul(?:y)?|Aug(?:ust)?|Oct(?:ober)?|Dec(?:ember)?)\g{sep}(?<DD>0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01]))|
(?:(?<MM>0[469]|11|Apr(?:il)?|Jun(?:e)?|Sep(?:tember)?|Nov(?:ember)?)\g{sep}(?<DD>0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|30))|
(?:(?<MM>02|Feb(?:ruary)?)\g{sep}(?<DD>0[1-9]|[12][0-9]))
)
(?:
(?<=[023][1])st|
(?<=[02][2])nd|
(?<=[02][3])rd|
(?<=(?:0[4-9])|(?:1[0-9])|20|(?:2[4-9])|30)th
)?
[,;.]?
\b"x
IMHO, it makes no sense for a regex to check for a leap year, when a simple, clear and understandable one-liner can be written for it:
is_leap_year(y) = ((y%4 == 0) && (y%100 != 0)) || (y%400 == 0)
Regexes are for matching strings and not for carrying out calculation. The best way is to match the string and then pass the captured MM group to the is_leap_year function if its 02, Feb or February, to validate the string.

Regular Expression to match valid dates

I'm trying to write a regular expression that validates a date. The regex needs to match the following
M/D/YYYY
MM/DD/YYYY
Single digit months can start with a leading zero (eg: 03/12/2008)
Single digit days can start with a leading zero (eg: 3/02/2008)
CANNOT include February 30 or February 31 (eg: 2/31/2008)
So far I have
^(([1-9]|1[012])[-/.]([1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[-/.](19|20)\d\d)|((1[012]|0[1-9])(3[01]|2\d|1\d|0[1-9])(19|20)\d\d)|((1[012]|0[1-9])[-/.](3[01]|2\d|1\d|0[1-9])[-/.](19|20)\d\d)$
This matches properly EXCEPT it still includes 2/30/2008 & 2/31/2008.
Does anyone have a better suggestion?
Edit: I found the answer on RegExLib
^((((0[13578])|([13578])|(1[02]))[\/](([1-9])|([0-2][0-9])|(3[01])))|(((0[469])|([469])|(11))[\/](([1-9])|([0-2][0-9])|(30)))|((2|02)[\/](([1-9])|([0-2][0-9]))))[\/]\d{4}$|^\d{4}$
It matches all valid months that follow the MM/DD/YYYY format.
Thanks everyone for the help.

This is not an appropriate use of regular expressions. You'd be better off using
[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{4}
and then checking ranges in a higher-level language.

Here is the Reg ex that matches all valid dates including leap years. Formats accepted mm/dd/yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy or mm.dd.yyyy format
^(?:(?:(?:0?[13578]|1[02])(\/|-|\.)31)\1|(?:(?:0?[1,3-9]|1[0-2])(\/|-|\.)(?:29|30)\2))(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$|^(?:0?2(\/|-|\.)29\3(?:(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?(?:0[48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26])|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))))$|^(?:(?:0?[1-9])|(?:1[0-2]))(\/|-|\.)(?:0?[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])\4(?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)?\d{2})$
courtesy Asiq Ahamed

I landed here because the title of this question is broad and I was looking for a regex that I could use to match on a specific date format (like the OP). But I then discovered, as many of the answers and comments have comprehensively highlighted, there are many pitfalls that make constructing an effective pattern very tricky when extracting dates that are mixed-in with poor quality or non-structured source data.
In my exploration of the issues, I have come up with a system that enables you to build a regular expression by arranging together four simpler sub-expressions that match on the delimiter, and valid ranges for the year, month and day fields in the order you require.
These are :-
Delimeters
[^\w\d\r\n:]
This will match anything that is not a word character, digit character, carriage return, new line or colon. The colon has to be there to prevent matching on times that look like dates (see my test Data)
You can optimise this part of the pattern to speed up matching, but this is a good foundation that detects most valid delimiters.
Note however; It will match a string with mixed delimiters like this 2/12-73 that may not actually be a valid date.
Year Values
(\d{4}|\d{2})
This matches a group of two or 4 digits, in most cases this is acceptable, but if you're dealing with data from the years 0-999 or beyond 9999 you need to decide how to handle that because in most cases a 1, 3 or >4 digit year is garbage.
Month Values
(0?[1-9]|1[0-2])
Matches any number between 1 and 12 with or without a leading zero - note: 0 and 00 is not matched.
Date Values
(0?[1-9]|[12]\d|30|31)
Matches any number between 1 and 31 with or without a leading zero - note: 0 and 00 is not matched.
This expression matches Date, Month, Year formatted dates
(0?[1-9]|[12]\d|30|31)[^\w\d\r\n:](0?[1-9]|1[0-2])[^\w\d\r\n:](\d{4}|\d{2})
But it will also match some of the Year, Month Date ones. It should also be bookended with the boundary operators to ensure the whole date string is selected and prevent valid sub-dates being extracted from data that is not well-formed i.e. without boundary tags 20/12/194 matches as 20/12/19 and 101/12/1974 matches as 01/12/1974
Compare the results of the next expression to the one above with the test data in the nonsense section (below)
\b(0?[1-9]|[12]\d|30|31)[^\w\d\r\n:](0?[1-9]|1[0-2])[^\w\d\r\n:](\d{4}|\d{2})\b
There's no validation in this regex so a well-formed but invalid date such as 31/02/2001 would be matched. That is a data quality issue, and as others have said, your regex shouldn't need to validate the data.
Because you (as a developer) can't guarantee the quality of the source data you do need to perform and handle additional validation in your code, if you try to match and validate the data in the RegEx it gets very messy and becomes difficult to support without very concise documentation.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Having said that, if you do have mixed formats where the date values vary, and you have to extract as much as you can; You can combine a couple of expressions together like so;
This (disastrous) expression matches DMY and YMD dates
(\b(0?[1-9]|[12]\d|30|31)[^\w\d\r\n:](0?[1-9]|1[0-2])[^\w\d\r\n:](\d{4}|\d{2})\b)|(\b(0?[1-9]|1[0-2])[^\w\d\r\n:](0?[1-9]|[12]\d|30|31)[^\w\d\r\n:](\d{4}|\d{2})\b)
BUT you won't be able to tell if dates like 6/9/1973 are the 6th of September or the 9th of June. I'm struggling to think of a scenario where that is not going to cause a problem somewhere down the line, it's bad practice and you shouldn't have to deal with it like that - find the data owner and hit them with the governance hammer.
Finally, if you want to match a YYYYMMDD string with no delimiters you can take some of the uncertainty out and the expression looks like this
\b(\d{4})(0[1-9]|1[0-2])(0[1-9]|[12]\d|30|31)\b
But note again, it will match on well-formed but invalid values like 20010231 (31th Feb!) :)
Test data
In experimenting with the solutions in this thread I ended up with a test data set that includes a variety of valid and non-valid dates and some tricky situations where you may or may not want to match i.e. Times that could match as dates and dates on multiple lines.
I hope this is useful to someone.
Valid Dates in various formats
Day, month, year
2/11/73
02/11/1973
2/1/73
02/01/73
31/1/1973
02/1/1973
31.1.2011
31-1-2001
29/2/1973
29/02/1976
03/06/2010
12/6/90
month, day, year
02/24/1975
06/19/66
03.31.1991
2.29.2003
02-29-55
03-13-55
03-13-1955
12\24\1974
12\30\1974
1\31\1974
03/31/2001
01/21/2001
12/13/2001
Match both DMY and MDY
12/12/1978
6/6/78
06/6/1978
6/06/1978
using whitespace as a delimiter
13 11 2001
11 13 2001
11 13 01
13 11 01
1 1 01
1 1 2001
Year Month Day order
76/02/02
1976/02/29
1976/2/13
76/09/31
YYYYMMDD sortable format
19741213
19750101
Valid dates before Epoch
12/1/10
12/01/660
12/01/00
12/01/0000
Valid date after 2038
01/01/2039
01/01/39
Valid date beyond the year 9999
01/01/10000
Dates with leading or trailing characters
12/31/21/
31/12/1921AD
31/12/1921.10:55
12/10/2016 8:26:00.39
wfuwdf12/11/74iuhwf
fwefew13/11/1974
01/12/1974vdwdfwe
01/01/99werwer
12321301/01/99
Times that look like dates
12:13:56
13:12:01
1:12:01PM
1:12:01 AM
Dates that runs across two lines
1/12/19
74
01/12/19
74/13/1946
31/12/20
08:13
Invalid, corrupted or nonsense dates
0/1/2001
1/0/2001
00/01/2100
01/0/2001
0101/2001
01/131/2001
31/31/2001
101/12/1974
56/56/56
00/00/0000
0/0/1999
12/01/0
12/10/-100
74/2/29
12/32/45
20/12/194
2/12-73

Maintainable Perl 5.10 version
/
(?:
(?<month> (?&mon_29)) [\/] (?<day>(?&day_29))
| (?<month> (?&mon_30)) [\/] (?<day>(?&day_30))
| (?<month> (?&mon_31)) [\/] (?<day>(?&day_31))
)
[\/]
(?<year> [0-9]{4})
(?(DEFINE)
(?<mon_29> 0?2 )
(?<mon_30> 0?[469] | (11) )
(?<mon_31> 0?[13578] | 1[02] )
(?<day_29> 0?[1-9] | [1-2]?[0-9] )
(?<day_30> 0?[1-9] | [1-2]?[0-9] | 30 )
(?<day_31> 0?[1-9] | [1-2]?[0-9] | 3[01] )
)
/x
You can retrieve the elements by name in this version.
say "Month=$+{month} Day=$+{day} Year=$+{year}";
( No attempt has been made to restrict the values for the year. )

To control a date validity under the following format :
YYYY/MM/DD or YYYY-MM-DD
I would recommand you tu use the following regular expression :
(((19|20)([2468][048]|[13579][26]|0[48])|2000)[/-]02[/-]29|((19|20)[0-9]{2}[/-](0[4678]|1[02])[/-](0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|30)|(19|20)[0-9]{2}[/-](0[1359]|11)[/-](0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])|(19|20)[0-9]{2}[/-]02[/-](0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-8])))
Matches
2016-02-29 | 2012-04-30 | 2019/09/31
Non-Matches
2016-02-30 | 2012-04-31 | 2019/09/35
You can customise it if you wants to allow only '/' or '-' separators.
This RegEx strictly controls the validity of the date and verify 28,30 and 31 days months, even leap years with 29/02 month.
Try it, it works very well and prevent your code from lot of bugs !
FYI : I made a variant for the SQL datetime. You'll find it there (look for my name) : Regular Expression to validate a timestamp
Feedback are welcomed :)

Sounds like you're overextending regex for this purpose. What I would do is use a regex to match a few date formats and then use a separate function to validate the values of the date fields so extracted.

Perl expanded version
Note use of /x modifier.
/^(
(
( # 31 day months
(0[13578])
| ([13578])
| (1[02])
)
[\/]
(
([1-9])
| ([0-2][0-9])
| (3[01])
)
)
| (
( # 30 day months
(0[469])
| ([469])
| (11)
)
[\/]
(
([1-9])
| ([0-2][0-9])
| (30)
)
)
| ( # 29 day month (Feb)
(2|02)
[\/]
(
([1-9])
| ([0-2][0-9])
)
)
)
[\/]
# year
\d{4}$
| ^\d{4}$ # year only
/x
Original
^((((0[13578])|([13578])|(1[02]))[\/](([1-9])|([0-2][0-9])|(3[01])))|(((0[469])|([469])|(11))[\/](([1-9])|([0-2][0-9])|(30)))|((2|02)[\/](([1-9])|([0-2][0-9]))))[\/]\d{4}$|^\d{4}$

if you didn't get those above suggestions working, I use this, as it gets any date I ran this expression through 50 links, and it got all the dates on each page.
^20\d\d-(Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)-(0[1-9]|[1-2][0-9]|3[01])$

This regex validates dates between 01-01-2000 and 12-31-2099 with matching separators.
^(0[1-9]|1[012])([- /.])(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])\2(19|20)\d\d$

var dtRegex = new RegExp(/[1-9\-]{4}[0-9\-]{2}[0-9\-]{2}/);
if(dtRegex.test(date) == true){
var evalDate = date.split('-');
if(evalDate[0] != '0000' && evalDate[1] != '00' && evalDate[2] != '00'){
return true;
}
}

Regex was not meant to validate number ranges(this number must be from 1 to 5 when the number preceding it happens to be a 2 and the number preceding that happens to be below 6).
Just look for the pattern of placement of numbers in regex. If you need to validate is qualities of a date, put it in a date object js/c#/vb, and interogate the numbers there.

I know this does not answer your question, but why don't you use a date handling routine to check if it's a valid date? Even if you modify the regexp with a negative lookahead assertion like (?!31/0?2) (ie, do not match 31/2 or 31/02) you'll still have the problem of accepting 29 02 on non leap years and about a single separator date format.
The problem is not easy if you want to really validate a date, check this forum thread.
For an example or a better way, in C#, check this link
If you are using another platform/language, let us know

Perl 6 version
rx{
^
$<month> = (\d ** 1..2)
{ $<month> <= 12 or fail }
'/'
$<day> = (\d ** 1..2)
{
given( +$<month> ){
when 1|3|5|7|8|10|12 {
$<day> <= 31 or fail
}
when 4|6|9|11 {
$<day> <= 30 or fail
}
when 2 {
$<day> <= 29 or fail
}
default { fail }
}
}
'/'
$<year> = (\d ** 4)
$
}
After you use this to check the input the values are available in $/ or individually as $<month>, $<day>, $<year>. ( those are just syntax for accessing values in $/ )
No attempt has been made to check the year, or that it doesn't match the 29th of Feburary on non leap years.

If you're going to insist on doing this with a regular expression, I'd recommend something like:
( (0?1|0?3| <...> |10|11|12) / (0?1| <...> |30|31) |
0?2 / (0?1| <...> |28|29) )
/ (19|20)[0-9]{2}
This might make it possible to read and understand.

/(([1-9]{1}|0[1-9]|1[0-2])\/(0[1-9]|[1-9]{1}|[12]\d|3[01])\/[12]\d{3})/
This would validate for following -
Single and 2 digit day with range from 1 to 31. Eg, 1, 01, 11, 31.
Single and 2 digit month with range from 1 to 12. Eg. 1, 01, 12.
4 digit year. Eg. 2021, 1980.

A slightly different approach that may or may not be useful for you.
I'm in php.
The project this relates to will never have a date prior to the 1st of January 2008. So, I take the 'date' inputed and use strtotime(). If the answer is >= 1199167200 then I have a date that is useful to me. If something that doesn't look like a date is entered -1 is returned. If null is entered it does return today's date number so you do need a check for a non-null entry first.
Works for my situation, perhaps yours too?