check format of date with moment.js

Question

I am taking input from calendar in my screen which is of this type ``` DD-MMM-YYYY HH:mm a ``` but user can provide date from keyboard. Now I have to check whether user has provided the date in correct format or not. I am heavily using moment.js in my application and validating it like this ``` if(angular.equals(moment(scope.modelValue).format('DD-MMM-YYYY HH:mm a'), 'Invalid date')) { alert('date is not correct'); } else { alert('date is correct'); } ``` It is working fine but the problem is if I provide input like '18-Feb-2015 2' then it is converted to '18-Feb-2015 00:00 am'. so now how to check that format is exactly what I want ? please help ..

Accepted Answer

For checking date format you could use:

```
moment(checked_date, DATE_FORMAT).format(DATE_FORMAT) === checked_date
```

check format of date with moment.js

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