Fixed jquery-validation#71 - improve existing time method and add tim…

…e12h method for 12h am/pm time format

additional-methods.js

@@ -157,9 +157,11 @@ jQuery.validator.addMethod("dateNL", function(value, element) {
 );
 
 jQuery.validator.addMethod("time", function(value, element) {
-		return this.optional(element) || /^([01][0-9])|(2[0123]):([0-5])([0-9])$/.test(value);
-	}, "Please enter a valid time, between 00:00 and 23:59"
-);
+	return this.optional(element) || /^([01]\d|2[0-3])(:[0-5]\d){0,2}$/.test(value);
+}, "Please enter a valid time, between 00:00 and 23:59");
+jQuery.validator.addMethod("time12h", function(value, element) {
+	return this.optional(element) || /^((0?[1-9]|1[012])(:[0-5]\d){0,2}(\ [AP]M))$/i.test(value);
+}, "Please enter a valid time, between 00:00 am and 12:00 pm");
 
 /**
  * matches US phone number format

changelog.txt

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 * Improved email method to not allow the dot at the end (valid by RFC, but unwanted here). Fixes #143
 * Fixed swedish and norwedian translations, min/max messages got switched. Fixes #181
 * Fixed #184 - resetForm: should unset lastElement
+* Fixed #71 - improve existing time method and add time12h method for 12h am/pm time format
 
 1.8.1
 ---

test/methods.js

@@ -492,12 +492,26 @@ test("time", function() {
 	var method = methodTest("time");
 	ok( method("00:00"), "Valid time, lower bound" );
 	ok( method("23:59"), "Valid time, upper bound" );
+	ok( !method("00:60"), "Invalid time" );
 	ok( !method("24:60"), "Invalid time" );
 	ok( !method("24:00"), "Invalid time" );
 	ok( !method("29:59"), "Invalid time" );
 	ok( !method("30:00"), "Invalid time" );
 });
 
+test("time12h", function() {
+	var method = methodTest("time12h");
+	ok( method("12:00 AM"), "Valid time, lower bound, am" );
+	ok( method("11:59 AM"), "Valid time, upper bound, am" );
+	ok( method("12:00 PM"), "Valid time, lower bound, pm" );
+	ok( method("11:59 PM"), "Valid time, upper bound, pm" );
+	ok( method("11:59 am"), "Valid time, also accept lowercase" );
+	ok( method("11:59 pm"), "Valid time, also accept lowercase" );
+	ok( !method("12:00"), "Invalid time" );
+	ok( !method("12:61 am"), "Invalid time" );
+	ok( !method("13:00 am"), "Invalid time" );
+});
+
 test("minWords", function() {
 	var method = methodTest("minWords");
 	ok( method("hello worlds", 2), "plain text, valid" );