Parsing datetimes that are just digits with no delimiters fails about i18n HOT 3 CLOSED

This is infeasible. It comes up a few times as wanting to parse a Date like 20150429, but that's not a good use of this library. This is for internationalization. If you want to read a hard-coded datetime format with fixed length fields you can do that much, much more efficiently. This expects to print the fields in many different ways depending on locale information, possibly not in the same order, and the field specifies are not interpreted literally. That is, MM does not necessarily mean a padded two digit date, so if there are no delimiters we really can't handle it.

from i18n.

For others looking for a solution to this, DateTime.parse provides this capability.
https://api.dartlang.org/stable/1.24.3/dart-core/DateTime/parse.html

from i18n.

Well that's interesting, I didn't realize that. Thanks for pointing it out.

from i18n.