Dart DateTime year
Syntax & Examples

Syntax of DateTime.year

The syntax of DateTime.year property is:

 int year

This year property of DateTime the year.

Return Type

DateTime.year returns value of type int.


✐ Examples

1 Get the year of the current DateTime

In this example,

  1. We create a DateTime object dt using the DateTime.now() constructor, which represents the current date and time.
  2. We then access the year property of dt to get the year.
  3. We print the result to standard output. Output varies depending on the parsed date and time.

Dart Program

void main() {
  var dt = DateTime.now();
  print(dt.year);
}

Output

2024

2 Get the year of a specific DateTime in UTC

In this example,

  1. We create a DateTime object dt using the DateTime.utc() constructor, specifying the year, month, day, hour, minute, and second.
  2. We then access the year property of dt to get the year.
  3. We print the result to standard output. Output varies depending on the parsed date and time.

Dart Program

void main() {
  var dt = DateTime.utc(2021, 5, 3, 10, 15, 30);
  print(dt.year);
}

Output

2021

3 Get the year of a parsed DateTime

In this example,

  1. We create a DateTime object dt by parsing a date-time string '2024-05-03T10:15:30' using the DateTime.parse() method.
  2. We then access the year property of dt to get the year.
  3. We print the result to standard output. Output varies depending on the parsed date and time.

Dart Program

void main() {
  var dt = DateTime.parse('2029-05-03T10:15:30');
  print(dt.year);
}

Output

2029

Summary

In this Dart tutorial, we learned about year property of DateTime: the syntax and few working examples with output and detailed explanation for each example.