How get the name of the days of the week in Dart
Somebody knows how can I extract from DateTime the name of the day of the week?
ej:
DateTime date = DateTime.now();
String dateFormat = DateFormat('dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm').format(date);
Result -> Friday
Solution 1:
Use 'EEEE' as a date pattern
DateFormat('EEEE').format(date); /// e.g Thursday
Don't forget to import
import 'package:intl/intl.dart';
Check this for more info : https://pub.dev/documentation/intl/latest/intl/DateFormat-class.html
Solution 2:
in your pubspec.yaml file, dependencies section. add intl dependency like so :
dependencies:
intl: ^0.16.0 // <-- dependency added here, remember to remove this comment
// other dependencies . remove this comment too
more about intl dependency here : intl
This package provides internationalization and localization facilities, including message translation, plurals and genders, date/number formatting and parsing, and bidirectional text.
and then at the top of your dart file import :
import 'package:intl/intl.dart';
now you can use DateFormat as you wish, here is an example :
var date = DateTime.now();
print(date.toString()); // prints something like 2019-12-10 10:02:22.287949
print(DateFormat('EEEE').format(date)); // prints Tuesday
print(DateFormat('EEEE, d MMM, yyyy').format(date)); // prints Tuesday, 10 Dec, 2019
print(DateFormat('h:mm a').format(date)); // prints 10:02 AM
there are many formats you can use with DateFormat, more details found here : https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/intl/DateFormat-class.html
hope this helps. Thank you