Now

A minimalist DateTime library for validating, parsing, manipulating and formatting times.

Installation

This will add a like this to you packages pubspec.yaml file:

dependencies:
  now: latest

Or you can install it from the command line:

dart pub add now

Sponsors

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Getting Started

Create a DateTime

/// Create a new DateTime from local time zone.
final current = now(); // Same as DateTime.now()
final utc = now.utc(); // Same as DateTime.now().toUtc()

Format a DateTime

final pattern = 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.SSS';
final formated = now().format(pattern); // Same as DateTime.now().format(pattern)

print(formated); // 2021-08-01 12:00:00.000

Convert a DateTime

Obtained a UTC safely originally from a different time zone.

final utc = date.isUtc ? date : date.toUtc();

Now you can convert it to a UTC time zone.

final utc = date.utc; // Same as date.isUtc ? date : date.toUtc();

DateTime addition and subtraction

final date = now();

/// Add 1 day.
final tomorrow = date + 1.day; // Same as date.add(Duration(days: 1));

/// Subtract 1 day.
final yesterday = date - 1.day; // Same as date.subtract(Duration(days: 1));

DateTime comparison

• Compare DateTime with DateTime less than or equal.

  final date1 = now();
  final date2 = date1 + 1.day;
  
  print(date1 <= date2); // true
  print(date1.isBeforeOrEqual(date2)); // true

• Compare DateTime with DateTime greater than or equal.

  final date1 = now();
  final date2 = date1 + 1.day;
  
  print(date2 >= date1); // true
  print(date2.isAfterOrEqual(date1)); // true

• Compare DateTime with DateTime less than.

  final date1 = now();
  final date2 = date1 + 1.day;
  
  print(date1 < date2); // true
  print(date1.isBefore(date2)); // true

• Compare DateTime with DateTime greater than.

  final date1 = now();
  final date2 = date1 + 1.day;
  
  print(date2 > date1); // true
  print(date2.isAfter(date1)); // true

Duration extensions

Weeks in the duration

final Duration duration = Duration(days: 7);

print(duration.inWeeks); // 1

Convert a int to a Duration

Unit	Same as	Description	Example
microseconds	Duration(microseconds: <int>)	Microseconds in the duration	1.microsecond
milliseconds	Duration(milliseconds: <int>)	Milliseconds in the duration	1.millisecond
seconds	Duration(seconds: <int>)	Seconds in the duration	1.second
minutes	Duration(minutes: <int>)	Minutes in the duration	1.minute
hours	Duration(hours: <int>)	Hours in the duration	1.hour
days	Duration(days: <int>)	Days in the duration	1.day
weeks	Duration(days: <int> * 7)	Weeks in the duration	1.week

Format specifiers

By default we register all the built-in formatters.

specifier	Description	Example
A	AM/PM Upper case	now().format('A') -> AM
a	am/pm Lower case	now().format('a') -> am
D	Day of month, 1-31	now().format('D') -> 1
DD	Day of month, 01-31	now().format('DD') -> 01
d	Day of week, 1-7	now().format('d') -> 1
dd	Day of week min name	now().format('dd') -> Mo
ddd	Day of week short name	now().format('ddd') -> Mon
dddd	Day of week full name	now().format('dddd') -> Monday
H	Hour, 0-23	now().format('H') -> 0
HH	Hour, 00-23	now().format('HH') -> 00
h	Hour, 1-12	now().format('h') -> 1
hh	Hour, 01-12	now().format('hh') -> 01
SSS	Milliseconds, 000-999	now().format('SSS') -> 000
m	Minute, 0-59	now().format('m') -> 0
mm	Minute, 00-59	now().format('mm') -> 00
M	Month, 1-12	now().format('M') -> 1
MM	Month, 01-12	now().format('MM') -> 01
MMM	Month abbreviated name	now().format('MMM') -> Jan
MMMM	Month full name	now().format('MMMM') -> January
Q	Quarter, 1-4	now().format('Q') -> 1
s	Second, 0-59	now().format('s') -> 0
ss	Second, 00-59	now().format('ss') -> 00
YY	Year, 00-99	now().format('YY') -> 21
YYYY	Year, 0000-9999	now().format('YYYY') -> 2023
Z	Timezone	now().format('Z') -> +01:00
ZZ	Timezone	now().format('ZZ') -> +0100

Escape specifiers

Occasionally, single-character specifiers exist for formatters. Our formatting mode hopes that this string will not be processed by the formatter, but will output the characters we defined as it is.

• \ Prefix, a character after the \ symbol ensures output as is.

  now().format('HH:mm A ss'); // 00:00 AM 00
  
  // This is not what we expect, since the second s needs to be output as-is.
  now().format(r'HH:mm A s\s'); // 00:00 AM 0s
  
  // Or
  now().format('HH:mm A s\\s'); // 00:00 AM 0s

DateTime formatter

Sometimes the built-in formatter cannot meet all your needs, you can register a DateTime formatter via now.register:

final DateTimeFormatter formatter = ...

now.register(formatter);

You may already have a DateTime formatter, but its specifier is not what you expect:

final DateTimeFormatter formatter = ...

now.registerWith('Custom specifier', formatter);

Custom formatter

If you wish to customize the DateTime formatter, you need to implement the DateTimeFormatter interface imported from package:now/formatter.dart:

import 'package:now/formatter.dart';

class MyFormatter implements DateTimeFormatter {
  const MyFormatter();

  /// Matched the [specifier] and return the [DateTime] format result.
  @override
  String format(DateTime dateTime) {
    // TODO: format the [dateTime] and return the result.
    return 'My format result';
  }

  @override
  String get specifier => 'My specifier';
}

Then we register and use it:

import 'package:now/now.dart';

main() {
  now.register(const MyFormatter());

  print(now().format('YYYY - My specifier')); // Output: 2023 - My format result
}

Function-based formatter

If you don't want to implement the DateTimeFormatter interface, you can also use the function-based formatter:

import 'package:now/now.dart';

main() {
  now.registerWithFn('My specifier', (dateTime) {
    return 'My format result';
  });

  print(now().format('YYYY - My specifier')); // Output: 2023 - My format result
}

Stopwatch

We provide a helper method for Stopwatch that can be directly created and started:

final stopwatch = now.stopwatch(); // Same as Stopwatch()..start()

Destroy formatters

Method	Description	Example
now.destroy()	Destroys a registered with a test function.	now.destroy((f) => f.specifier == 'A')
now.destroyAll()	Destroys all registered formatters.	now.destroyAll()
now.destroyWith()	Destroys a registered formatter.	now.destroyWith('A')
now.destroyDefault()	Destroys all built-in formatters.	now.destroyDefault()

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please read our contributing guide to learn about our development process, how to propose bugfixes and improvements, and how to build and test your changes to Prisma.

Thank you to all the people who already contributed to Odroe!

Code of Conduct

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