Dart Date Formatting
Most of the Flutter Developer has question like how to convert Date to String with Format or Double to Currency Format in Flutter?
You can use the intl package (installer) to format dates.
library will solve most of the formatting issue in flutter.
This library provides internationalization and localization. This includes message formatting and replacement, date and number formatting and parsing, and utilities for working with Bidirectional text. DateFormat is for formatting and parsing dates in a locale-sensitive manner.
Date Formatting (DateFormat)
import 'package:intl/intl.dart';
main() {
var now = new DateTime.now();
var formatter = new DateFormat('yyyy-MMM-dd');
String formatted = formatter.format(now);
print(formatted); // something like 2019-Jun-20
}
Supported Formats
ICU Name Skeleton
-------- --------
DAY d
ABBR_WEEKDAY E
WEEKDAY EEEE
ABBR_STANDALONE_MONTH LLL
STANDALONE_MONTH LLLL
NUM_MONTH M
NUM_MONTH_DAY Md
NUM_MONTH_WEEKDAY_DAY MEd
ABBR_MONTH MMM
ABBR_MONTH_DAY MMMd
ABBR_MONTH_WEEKDAY_DAY MMMEd
MONTH MMMM
MONTH_DAY MMMMd
MONTH_WEEKDAY_DAY MMMMEEEEd
ABBR_QUARTER QQQ
QUARTER QQQQ
YEAR y
YEAR_NUM_MONTH yM
YEAR_NUM_MONTH_DAY yMd
YEAR_NUM_MONTH_WEEKDAY_DAY yMEd
YEAR_ABBR_MONTH yMMM
YEAR_ABBR_MONTH_DAY yMMMd
YEAR_ABBR_MONTH_WEEKDAY_DAY yMMMEd
YEAR_MONTH yMMMM
YEAR_MONTH_DAY yMMMMd
YEAR_MONTH_WEEKDAY_DAY yMMMMEEEEd
YEAR_ABBR_QUARTER yQQQ
YEAR_QUARTER yQQQQ
HOUR24 H
HOUR24_MINUTE Hm
HOUR24_MINUTE_SECOND Hms
HOUR j
HOUR_MINUTE jm
HOUR_MINUTE_SECOND jms
HOUR_MINUTE_GENERIC_TZ jmv
HOUR_MINUTE_TZ jmz
HOUR_GENERIC_TZ jv
HOUR_TZ jz
MINUTE m
MINUTE_SECOND ms
SECOND s
Currency Formatting (NumberFormat)
import 'package:intl/intl.dart';
main() {
double flutterBalance = 94510.60;
final oCcy = new NumberFormat("#,##0.00", "en_US");
String formatted = oCcy.format(flutterBalance);
print(formatted); // something like 94,510.60
}
Thanks for reading, and hopefully this was helpful!
