How get the name of the days of the week in Dart

Question

Somebody knows how can I extract from DateTime the name of the day of the week?

ej:

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

Result -> Friday

Answer 1

Use 'EEEE' as a date pattern

 DateFormat('EEEE').format(date); /// e.g Thursday 

Don't forget to import

import 'package:intl/intl.dart'; 

Check this for more info : https://pub.dev/documentation/intl/latest/intl/DateFormat-class.html

Answer 2

in your pubspec.yaml file, dependencies section. add intl dependency like so :

dependencies:   intl: ^0.16.0 // <-- dependency added here, remember to remove this comment   // other dependencies . remove this comment too 

more about intl dependency here : intl

This package provides internationalization and localization facilities, including message translation, plurals and genders, date/number formatting and parsing, and bidirectional text.

and then at the top of your dart file import :

import 'package:intl/intl.dart'; 

now you can use DateFormat as you wish, here is an example :

var date = DateTime.now(); print(date.toString()); // prints something like 2019-12-10 10:02:22.287949 print(DateFormat('EEEE').format(date)); // prints Tuesday print(DateFormat('EEEE, d MMM, yyyy').format(date)); // prints Tuesday, 10 Dec, 2019 print(DateFormat('h:mm a').format(date)); // prints 10:02 AM 

there are many formats you can use with DateFormat, more details found here : https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/intl/DateFormat-class.html

hope this helps. Thank you