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Validating a custom date format in with laravel validator

In my app, the user selects date from a datepicker and the date is then displayed in the input in a format that corresponds user’s locale.

When the form is submitted, I would like to validate the respective date, however, the validator does not know the date format that the date was submitted in.

My question is whether I should mutate the date into Y-m-d before it is passed to validator or is there a way I can tell the Validator the right format to validate in?

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