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Sachihiro
Sachihiro

Reputation: 1793

Dart: Comparing two times from string

Is there any way to compare two times in dart, suppose we have: 13:45 and 15:34, is there any way to find out that 15:34 is after 13:45.

I was looking at this question, and there are functions to check isBefore or isAfter, but is it possible to parse time without having to parse year, month and day?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 900

Answers (1)

Cetin Basoz
Cetin Basoz

Reputation: 23797

You can convert them to datetime and compare. ie:

void main() {
   var s1 = '13:45';
   var s2 = '15:34';
  
   var t1 = DateTime.parse('2000-01-01 ${s1}');
   var t2 = DateTime.parse('2000-01-01 ${s2}');
   print(t1.isBefore(t2));
}

EDIT: For a more direct, string sort like comparison (which I wouldn't suggest at all for Date\time values, unless you are 100% sure they are in sortable format) you could use compareTo(). ie:

print(s1.compareTo(s2) < 0);

Upvotes: 2

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