changing date formatter's locale

Question

am using Date formatter in my app to display some dates.. but i want this date to be shown in Arabic .. so i tried to change locale of the formatter like this this:

var now = new DateTime.now();
var formatter = DateFormat.yMMMd("ar_SA");
String formatted = formatter.format(now);
print(formatted);

but its not working ..

if i changed it to this:

var now = new DateTime.now();
var formatter = DateFormat.yMMMd("en_US");
String formatted = formatter.format(now);
print(formatted);

Will work fine .. but i want the date to be displayed in Arabic ..

how to achieve this? i want the date to be for example ١١ يناير ٢٠١٨.. how to do it?

Answer 1

You need to use initializeDateFormatting to get the correct date formatter like this:

initializeDateFormatting("ar_SA", null).then((_) {
      var now = DateTime.now();
      var formatter = DateFormat.yMMMd('ar_SA');
      print(formatter.locale);
      String formatted = formatter.format(now);
      print(formatted);
    });

or with async-await you could do:

await initializeDateFormatting("ar_SA", null);
var now = DateTime.now();
var formatter = DateFormat.yMMMd('ar_SA');
print(formatter.locale);
String formatted = formatter.format(now);
print(formatted);

This results in the following output for me:

ar
١٢ نوفمبر ٢٠١٨

Answer 2

and just make sure import data local

import 'package:intl/date_symbol_data_local.dart';