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Marcel Dz
Marcel Dz

Reputation: 2714

flutter datetime how to convert it

I have the following datetime from a database: 2022-10-02T23:10:24.736Z I want to compare it to a datetime now and get the difference in second. Basically I have the code for it, but im not able to convert the datetime.now to the mentioned format. It tells me it has a difference of 122 minutes but it should only be 2 minutes..

 DateTime datenow = DateTime.now();
 DateTime dateFormDatabase = DateTime.parse(widget.data[widget.currIndex-1]["roundEnd"]);

print(datenow); // <---- 2022-10-01 23:22:45.522687
print(dateFormDatabase); // <--- 2022-10-01 23:25:24.736Z

var diff = dateFormDatabase.difference(datenow);
print(diff.inMinutes); // <--- 122 but it should be 2minutes

Upvotes: 0

Views: 198

Answers (1)

puelo
puelo

Reputation: 6057

The returned difference is correct. You are probably looking at different timezones here. DateTime.now() returns the current date and time in your local timezone. The parsed date from your database seems to be coming in as UTC. Notice the "Z" at the end here: 2022-10-01 23:25:24.736Z.

If you want to visually compare them you could convert either of those to UTC/local with toUtc or toLocal

Upvotes: 2

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