How to display UTC time in local time

Question

In my flutter application I get appointment time in UTC format from a server. I would like to display it in local time.

Is there a way to convert UTC to local time in flutter?

Solution

Dart has inbuilt DateTime type that provides quite a few handy methods to convert between time formats.

void main() {
  var utc = DateTime.parse("2020-06-11 17:47:35 Z");
  print(utc.toString());             // 2020-06-11 17:47:35.000Z
  print(utc.isUtc.toString());       // true
  print(utc.toLocal().toString());   //2020-06-11 23:17:35.000
}

Comments

[harism]

Link from elsewhere on SO; stackoverflow.com/a/60188960/680519 Hope this helps (I am totally new to Flutter).

[Arvind Kumar Avinash]

I do not know Dart but I'm wondering if you really need to use .toString() in the print statement. In Java and similar languages, you can simply write print(utc); which will implicitly call print(utc.toString());

[Joy Terence]

You don't need it. Since I'd initially typed it out with Text widget on flutter dartpad, I had to use the .toString() and I kept it as it is in the example posted too. But you can just as well do print(UTC) :)