Flutter – Dart / Flutter default date format

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I am trying to format DateTime result and display it to the user in user's current device locale.

Currently I can either display entire DateTime such as following:

2018-10-08 16:08:37.464112

Or by specifying exact format like this:

DateFormat("dd.MM.yyyy").format(DateTime.now())

which results in following:

08.10.2018

My problem with this solution is, while this format might be acceptable in EU; in e.g. US (and many other countries) they are used to a different Date format, e.g.

10/08/2018

My question is: how to return only Date (not time) to user in their current locale's format?

Answer:
One needs to retrieve current locale and pass it to the format function. I am using custom localizations class, yet with out of the box solution it would look like this:

DateFormat.yMMMd(Localizations.localeOf(context)).format(result);

Best Answer

I know this is already answered, but in case someone wants to use the actual device locale and not a hard-coded one:

DateFormat.yMMMd(Localizations.localeOf(context).languageCode).format(result);

Important, you need to pass a String and not a Locale object here.

If you want to have a custom date format, then you need to create your own switch/case based on all the locales you want to support.

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