Dart: Scalable Application Development

Working with dates and times

Proper date-time handling is needed in almost every data context. What does Dart give us to ease working with dates and times? Dart has the excellent built-in classes DateTime and Duration in dart:core. As a few of its many uses, you can do the following:

• Compare and calculate with date times
• Get every part of a date-time
• Work with different time zones
• Measure timespans with Stopwatch

However, the DateTime class does not provide internationalization; for this purpose, you need to use the intl package from the Dart team.

How to do it...

The following are some useful techniques (try them out in date_time.dart):

• Formatting dates (from DateTime to a string) to standard formats, but also to any format using the package intl, as ...