Error with DateFormat in dart: "Trying to read -YYYY from 17-04-2020 at position 10"

Question

How to convert a string like '17-04-2020' which is in dd-MM-yyyy format to DateTime object in dart/flutter?

formatter = new DateFormat('dd-MM-YYYY');
formatter.parse(strDate);

I tried the above code and getting an error:

Trying to read -YYYY from 17-04-2020 at position 10

Answer 1

You need lower-case Y's on your date pattern, use this:

"dd-MM-yyyy"

You can check the docs here for available date patterns.

In case you only need two digits of the year, you can also use dd-MM-yy.