unable to convert string date in Format yyyyMMddHHmmss to DateTime dart

DateTime.parse("string date here") accept some formatted string only. Check below examples of accepted strings.

  • "2012-02-27 13:27:00"
  • "2012-02-27 13:27:00.123456789z"
  • "2012-02-27 13:27:00,123456789z"
  • "20120227 13:27:00"
  • "20120227T132700"
  • "20120227"
  • "+20120227"
  • "2012-02-27T14Z"
  • "2012-02-27T14+00:00"
  • "-123450101 00:00:00 Z": in the year -12345.
  • "2002-02-27T14:00:00-0500": Same as "2002-02-27T19:00:00Z"

=> String to DateTime

DateTime tempDate = new DateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss").parse(savedDateString);

=> DateTime to String

String date = DateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss").format(DateTime.now());

Reference links:

  • Use intl for DateFormat from flutter package (https://pub.dev/packages/intl)
  • DateTime.parse() => https://api.dart.dev/stable/2.7.2/dart-core/DateTime/parse.html

intl DateFormat can't cope with your input string as it doesn't have any separators. The whole string gets consumed as the year. However DateTime.parse does cope with this (nearly). It happens to expect precisely the format you have (again, nearly).

One of the acceptable styles to parse is 20120227T132700, which just differs by the T date/time separator.

Try this:

String date = '20180626170555';
String dateWithT = date.substring(0, 8) + 'T' + date.substring(8);
DateTime dateTime = DateTime.parse(dateWithT);

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