`Thur, Aug 23` Date format with flutter - flutter

According to the documentation, it seems that it is only possible to manipulate dates with a numeric format, and not letters.
Does a package exist if I want to display date with the format Thur, Aug 23 ?
If not, how could I do this ?
Thank you !

You can create your own DateFormat using it's default constructor.
The format you want is EEEE, MMM d.
For Example print(new DateFormat("EEEE, MMM d").format(new DateTime.now())); should print Wedn, Jun 26 for today.

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Flutter/Dart: DateFormat (using intl): how to remove zero prefix?

I am using intl pakage's DateFormat class to format dates with a format like this:
_standardDateFormat = DateFormat('MMM dd, yyyy');
This produces strings like Feb 01, 2023.
How can I have the date without the prefix of 0 when it's a single-digit date? I would like to show Feb 1, 2023. I have tried d, dd, c but they all render with the prefixed 0.
If it's a double-digit date, I would of course like to show both digits: Mar 13, 2023.
Update: the single d format is indeed working, but I needed to restart flutter build to see the effect (not sure why).

How to change freemarker date value?

I am getting {item.pubDate} from XML and the value is:
Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:35:47 +0000
so I did this:
<#assign starting_point = item.pubDate?index_of(",")>
<#assign date="${item.pubDate?substring(starting_point + 1)}" />
${date?datetime("dd MMM yyyy hh:mm:ss z")?date}<br>
and the result is: Mar 2, 2015.
My question is, can we change value from Mar to March and if we can then what is the best way to do it? I could have if/elseif statements in freemarker and assign each three letter months to full month name but it looks not good. Any advice/tips will be greatly appreciated. thanks.
It doesn't mater, MMM will parse both Mar and March. The only important thing is to have at least 3 M-s, as http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html says:
If the number of pattern letters is 3 or more, the month is interpreted as text; otherwise, it is interpreted as a number.
Yes, FreeMarker follows the same datetime formatting rules as Java. Use the ?string built in for dates. You can do:
${date?datetime("dd MMM yyyy hh:mm:ss z")?string("MMMM dd, yyyy")}
Source: http://freemarker.org/docs/ref_builtins_date.html#ref_builtin_string_for_date

Unparseable Date error - Talend

I am trying to copy data from Excel to a SQL table.
I have dates generated in Excel file using RAND function. I am taking them as strings in an input and trying to convert them in date data type using tConvertType.
I have setted its datatype as 'string' in initial input and as 'date' in tConvertType's output and in tMSSqlOutput.
My job has work flow Excel input -> tConvertType -> tMap -> tMSSqlOutput.
While running the job I am getting an error which says :
java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Tue Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 1973"
I am not sure where the problem lies.
If anyone could help me with this it would be much appreciated.
Here's the screenshot of my job.
i am able to parse your given sample date please use below function in tMap for your date filed.
System.out.println(TalendDate.parseDateLocale("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy", 'Tue Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 1973', "EN"));
function is yourDateColumn!=null && !"".equalsIgnoreCase(yourDateColumn)? TalendDate.parseDateLocale("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy", yourDateColumn, "EN") :null
#UmeshR: your code is working fine, but you have to handle the timezone thing as well. e.g. I am from India and when i converted the time from EDT talend converted it to my local timezone. see the screen-shot.

I am getting T in my date string from web service

I am creating an app which is using RSS feed.
in that I have to parse a dateTime string.
string coming in data is : Tue, 17 Sep 2013T04:00:00 GMT
I can not convert it into date because of that T b/w year and hour.
Can anyone please provide me the date format for this?
I am using formate like EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss ZZZ
But it is giving null value
I used : EEE, dd MMM yyyy'T'HH:mm:ss ZZZ
and it worked..

Groovy date parse issue

date.parse() method of groovy detects date DD and year yyyy correctly but is unable to detect the month as mmm.. As in
println new Date().parse("DD-MMM-yyyy", '22-MAR-2011')
yields output as
Sat Jan 22 00:00:00 GMT+05:30 2011
Why is the month march as MAR picked up as Jan? What can I do to make it detect the month in mmm format?
The problem is actualy that you are using DD - that means day in year
Correct way:
println new Date().parse("dd-MMM-yyyy", '22-MAR-2011')
Quick tip when formatting dates try using the reverse and see what comes out:
println new Date().format("dd-MMM-yyyy")
Groovy uses SimpleDateFormat under the hood but that's not that important since most date libraries use the same format conventions.