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How to Change DateTime Format in Laravel Using Carbon?

July 9, 2021 by SNK

In this tutorial, we are going to in how to change datetime format in laravel using laravel carbon date time format changer. It is basically an extension to change laravel date time format.

Not only in laravel but this extension can also be used in all the other projects that you can find on their official website. It is just ported into laravel to format the dates.

Let’s get started.

What are we going to do?

  1. List all the possible formats that we can achieve using Carbon date formatter.

How to Change DateTime Format in Laravel Using Carbon?

I am going to list all the formats here inside the controller so that so, that you can use it across all your projects. To get a good and easy demonstration lets to change date format in controller to get more understanding of how it works.

As we all know that laravel stores the record created date and updated date inside the table if you are using eloquent and not the raw DB queries. They are stored as created_at and updated_at as their field names on each table in year:month:day hour:minute:second format e.g. 2020-10-10 09:05:55

Let’s change some date formats. Make sure to import use Carbon\Carbon as Carbon; on top of Class.

Format – 1 [2020-10-12 09:05:55 to 12-10-2020] [Y-m-d to d-m-Y]

Controller
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public function getDate() {
    $date = Carbon::now()->toDateTimeString(); //2020-10-12 09:05:55
    $new_date = Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $date)->format('d-m-y'); //12-10-2020
    return $new_date;
}

to reverse it.

$new_date = Carbon::createFromFormat('d-m-y', $format_date)->format('Y-m-d h:i:s');

hyphens (-) can also be replaced with slashes (/) to get dates with slashes from 2020-10-12 09:05:55 to 2020/10/12 09:05:55

useCarbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $date)->format('d/m/y');

OR if you want to change d-m-y to Y/m/d with slashes (/)

Carbon::createFromFormat('d/m/y', $format_date)->format('Y/m/d h:i:s');

Format 2 – Change months from Digits to Alphabets [2020-10-12 09:05:55 to 10 Oct 2020]

Alphabetic Month Format
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public function getDate() {
   $date = Carbon::now()->toDateTimeString(); //2020-10-12 09:05:55
   $new_date = Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d h:i:s', $date)->format('d M Y'); // 10 Oct 2020
   return $new_date;
}

This format will give the short name of the month. If you need to fully qualified the name of months e.g October instead of Oct use format('d F Y').

Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d h:i:s', $date)->format('d F Y'); // 10 October 2020

Format 3 – Some handy Formats that you can use it in your projects

Get date of today

$date = Carbon::today(); OR Carbon::now(); // Only the difference in time.

Want to get from a specific timezone?

$date = Carbon::today('America/Vancouver');

Getting the time and date for tomorrow.

$date = Carbon::tomorrow();

We can also apply timezone in Carbon::tomorrow(); method like in Carbon::today();

Conclusion

These are only 1% of the laravel carbon date format, there is a number of things that you can find in their documentation. However, we don’t have to use all of them in our projects. The one I have listed will suffice.

If you have any problem with how to change datetime format in laravel using carbon, comment down below.

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