How to validate time in laravel

Create DateRequest and then add

<?php

namespace App\Http\Requests\Date;

use App\Http\Requests\FormRequest;


class DateRequest extends FormRequest
{
    /**
     * --------------------------------------------------
     * Determine if the user is authorized to make this request.
     * --------------------------------------------------
     * @return bool
     * --------------------------------------------------
     */
    public function authorize(): bool
    {
        return true;
    }


    /**
     * --------------------------------------------------
     * Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
     * --------------------------------------------------
     * @return array
     * --------------------------------------------------
     */
    public function rules(): array
    {
        return [

            'start_date' => 'nullable|date|date_format:H:i A',
            'end_date' => 'nullable|date|after_or_equal:start_date|date_format:H:i A'
        ];
    }
}

Probably this code would work in your controller. However it won't validate times from different days (eg 9pm - 3am next day). time_start and time_end in this case should be provided as HH:mm but you can change it easily.

public function store(Illuminate\Http\Request $request)
{
    $this->validate($request, [
        'time_start' => 'date_format:H:i',
        'time_end' => 'date_format:H:i|after:time_start',
    ]);

    // do other stuff
}

Use date_format rule validation

date_format:H:i

From docs

date_format:format

The field under validation must match the format defined according to the date_parse_from_format PHP function.