Title: Validating a date
Last modified: May 25, 2020

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# Validating a date

 *  [tsjippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsjippy/)
 * (@tsjippy)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-a-date/)
 * I want to add a birthday field, validate it with this regex: \d{1,2}-\d{1,2}-\
   d{4} but 01-02-1988 is always wrong?
 * Why

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