I am a newbie to Dart.I am currently facing a problem to format my DateTime to display the time based on the device's timezone.Can someone advise me how can I achieve that?My current code as following:

DateFormat('dd MMM yyyy hh:mm')

Output Sample:11 Mar 2019 07:04

Expectation:My device is using GMT+8 at the moment, I am expecting it to display as 11 Mar 2019 15.04.

Please advise.Thanks!!

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Best Answer


For converting UTC to Local Timezone :

import 'package:intl/intl.dart';var dateValue = new DateFormat("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ").parseUTC("2020-06-14T18:55:21Z").toLocal();String formattedDate = DateFormat("dd MMM yyyy hh:mm").format(dateValue);debugPrint("formattedDate = "+formattedDate);

To make sure your DateTime uses the device's current timezone always use toLocal().

DateTime.toLocal() documentation:https://api.dart.dev/stable/2.18.5/dart-core/DateTime/toLocal.html

So simply do:

DateFormat('dd MMM yyyy hh:mm').format(myDate.toLocal())

I fetched data from laravel api

laravel dateTimeUTC like 2021-05-21T17:33:24.000000Z

import 'package:intl/intl.dart';String dateTime = "2021-05-21T17:33:24.000000Z" // String datetime UTC zoneDateTime parsedDateFormat = DateFormat("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ").parseUTC(dateTime).toLocal(); // parse String datetime to DateTime and get local date time String formatedDateTime = DateFormat.yMd().add_jm().format(parsedDateFormat).toString(); // convert local date time to string format local date time// output is 5/21/2021 11:03PM

Install the intl package and then use the DateFormat.

import 'package:intl/intl.dart';
final dateFormatter = DateFormat('d MMMM yyyy hh:mm');print(dateFormatter.format(your_date_time_object));