Has anyone gotten any meaningful use out of datetime.tryparse? I'm trying to accept date formats such as...
MM/dd/yyyy
MM-dd-yyyy
MM.dd.yyyy
it seems DateTime.tryParse always returns null for all of these formats. Is there a library or a more convenient way to accept date times of different formats.
DateTime.[try]parse only parses a very distinct format, namely:
a subset of ISO 8601 which includes the subset accepted by RFC 3339
To parse formats like 06/09/2019 use the DateFormat class from package:intl.
DateFormat.yMd().parse('06/09/2019'); // defaults to en_US, i.e. MM/dd/yyyy
This code:
import 'package:intl/intl.dart';
main() {
print(DateFormat.yMd().parse('06/09/2019'));
}
prints
2019-06-09 00:00:00.000
as expected