Parse string to DateTime in Flutter (Dart) [duplicate] - datetime

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How do I convert a date/time string to a DateTime object in Dart?
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I am trying to parse String formatted like "23.1.2020" to DateTime object, but nothing works for me. I tried to use some packages like intl or date_format, but none of these can do the job.
DateTime todayDate = DateTime.parse("12.04.2020");
formatDate(todayDate, [yyyy, '/', mm, '/', dd, ' ', hh, ':', nn, ':', ss, ' ', am])
Do you have any idea, how to parse this?

Answer 1

Ok, I found way how to do that:
import 'package:intl/intl.dart';
DateFormat format = DateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy");
print(format.parse(date));

Answer 2

If you are absolutely sure that your date format will always be "dd.MM.yyyy" you could do this :
DateTime todayDate = DateTime.parse("12.04.2020".split('.').reversed.join());
This trick will format your date to "yyyyMMdd" format, which, according to the docs, is accepted by DateTime.parse().

Answer 3

Try out this package, Jiffy, it also runs on top of Intl, but makes it easier using momentjs syntax. See below
var date = Jiffy("12.04.2020", "dd.MM.yyyy").format("dd, Oct yy"); // 12, Apr 20
You can also do the following default formats
var date = Jiffy("12.04.2020", "dd.MM.yyyy").yMMMMd; // April 12, 2020
Hope this helps

Answer 4

Fuction Convert date to string :
String dateTostring(DateTime datevalue)
{
String _stringdate ="";
_stringdate = datevalue.month.toString()+"."+datevalue.day.toString()+"."+datevalue.year.toString() ;
return _stringdate;
}
Then fuction convert string to date:
DateTime dateStringtodate(String stringdate)
{
DateTime _stringdate;
List<String> validadeSplit = stringdate.split('.');
if(validadeSplit.length > 1)
{
int day = int.parse(validadeSplit[1].toString()));
int month = int.parse(validadeSplit[0].toString());
int year = int.parse(validadeSplit[2].toString());
_stringdate = DateTime.utc(year, day, month);
}
return _stringdate;
}