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Revert datetime format, from short to long

Tried searching around couldn't really find anything. Was hoping to find a way to revert the datetime format.

So I start off with: 4-11-22 and I want to change to Friday, 12 November 2022.

Using the intl package

Solution

  • import intl package

    import 'package:intl/intl.dart';

    Then, you can do as follows:

      String myDate = '4-11-22'; // input date
  String pattern = 'dd-MM-yy'; // define parse pattern for the input date
  DateTime date = DateFormat(pattern).parse(myDate); // parse the input date

  String newPattern = 'EEEE, dd MMMM yyyy'; // define new pattern
  String formattedDate = DateFormat(newPattern).format(date); // reformat
  print(formattedDate); // result: Friday, 04 November 2022

    Try on DartPad

    For more formatting possibilities, go to the docs.