Getting current date, time, and day in Laravel

Laravel has the Carbon dependency attached to it.

Carbon::now(), include the Carbon\Carbon namespace if necessary.

Edit (usage and docs)

Say I want to retrieve the date and time and output it as a string.

$mytime = Carbon\Carbon::now();
echo $mytime->toDateTimeString();

This will output in the usual format of Y-m-d H:i:s, there are many pre-created formats and you will unlikely need to mess with PHP date time strings again with Carbon.

Documentation: https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon

String formats for Carbon: http://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/#api-formatting

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Try this,

$ldate = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');

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Php has a date function which works very well. With laravel and blade you can use this without ugly <?php echo tags. For example, I use the following in a .blade.php file...

Copyright © {{ date('Y') }}

... and Laravel/blade translates that to the current year. If you want date time and day, you'll use something like this:

{{ date('Y-m-d H:i:s') }}

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If you want to use datetime class do:

$dt = new DateTime();
echo $dt->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

The documentation for reference.

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From Laravel 5.5 you can use now() function to get the current date and time.

In blade file, you can write like this to print date.

{{  now()->toDateTimeString('Y-m-d') }}

https://i.stack.imgur.com/4mkTo.png

For more information check doc

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Here is another way to do this

Use \Carbon\Carbon;

$date = Carbon::now(); echo $date->toRfc850String();

Output will be like this

Saturday, 11-May-19 06:28:04 UTC

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How about

    $date = Carbon::now();
    return $date->toArray();

will give you

{
  "year": 2019,
  "month": 1,
  "day": 27,
  "dayOfWeek": 0,
  "dayOfYear": 26,
  "hour": 10,
  "minute": 28,
  "second": 55,
  "englishDayOfWeek": "Sunday",
  "micro": 967721,
  "timestamp": 1548570535,
  "formatted": "2019-01-27 10:28:55",
  "timezone": {
    "timezone_type": 3,
    "timezone": "Asia/Dubai"
  }
}

The same props are accessible through

return [
             'date' => $date->format('Y-m-d'),
              'year' => $date->year,
              'month' => $date->month,
              'day' => $date->day,
              'hour' => $date->hour,
              'isSaturday' => $date->isSaturday(),
          ];

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FOR LARAVEL 5.x

I think you were looking for this

$errorLog->timestamps = false;
$errorLog->created_at = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");

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You can try this.

use Carbon\Carbon;

$date = Carbon::now()->toDateTimeString();

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I prefer to use a built-in PHP function. if you want to get timestamp format such as "2021-03-31" you can write code like this

$date = date('Y-m-d', time());

for the time you can write like this

$date = date('H:i:s', time());

for the day you can write like this

$date = date('l', time()); // lowercase of L

function time() will give you the current UNIX time and you convert it to whatever format you need.

So, you don't need any third-party package anymore :)

You can read more about UNIX time in this Wikipedia page and convert it in this webiste

Last, for the formatting, you can visit the w3schools page.

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You can get any date-time format by following these rules.

$dt = Carbon::now();

var_dump($dt->toDateTimeString() == $dt);          // bool(true) => uses     __toString()
echo $dt->toDateString();                          // 1975-12-25
echo $dt->toFormattedDateString();                 // Dec 25, 1975
echo $dt->toTimeString();                          // 14:15:16
echo $dt->toDateTimeString();                      // 1975-12-25 14:15:16
echo $dt->toDayDateTimeString();                   // Thu, Dec 25, 1975 2:15 PM

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You have a couple of helpers.

The helper now() https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/helpers#method-now

The helper now() has an optional argument, the timezone. So you can use now:

now();

or

now("Europe/Rome");

In the same way you could use the helper today() https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/helpers#method-today. This is the "same thing" of now() but with no hours, minutes, seconds.

At the end, under the hood they use Carbon as well.

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use DateTime;

$now = new DateTime();

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It's very simple:

Carbon::now()->toDateString()

This will give you a perfectly formatted date string such as 2020-10-29.

In Laravel 5.5 and above you can use now() as a global helper instead of Carbon::now(), like this:

now()->toDateString()

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Laravel Blade View:

{{\Carbon\Carbon::now()->format('d-m-Y')}}

With timezone:

{{\Carbon\Carbon::now("Asia/Tokyo")->format('d-m-Y')}}

Format available list: https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php

Timezone available list: https://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

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I use now() on laravel 8 to create a user

User::create([
   'name'=>'admin',
   'email'=>'admin@email.test',
   'email_verified_at'=>now(),
   'password'=>bcrypt('123456'),
]);

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data

return now()->toDateString();

Time

return now()->toTimeString(); 

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//vanilla php
Class Date {
    public static function date_added($time){
         date_default_timezone_set('Africa/Lagos');//or choose your location
        return date('l F Y g:i:s ',$time);

    }


}

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You can set the timezone on you AppServicesProvider in Provider Folder

public function boot()
{
    Schema::defaultStringLength(191);
    date_default_timezone_set('Africa/Lagos');
}

and then use Import Carbon\Carbon and simply use Carbon::now() //To get the current time, if you need to format it check out their documentation for more options based on your preferences enter link description here

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If you need the date directly in a input value of your view this can help you: (myview .blade.php)

<input type="date" name="Date" value="{{date('Y-m-d', time())}}">

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Try this,

$tmp = (new DateTime)->format('d-m-Y');
echo $tmp;

to Timestamp.

$kTsp = (new DateTime)->getTimestamp();
echo $kTsp;

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If you want date of today

use namespace

use Carbon\Carbon as time;

code ,

 $mytime=time::now();
 $date=$mytime->toRfc850String();
 $today= substr($date, 0, strrpos($date, ","));
 dd($today)

output , "Sunday"

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You can use today() function.

$today = today('Europe/London');
$dayOfYear = $today->dayOfYear;
$dayOfWeek = $today->dayOfWeek;

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today data and time

return now::();

time

return now()->toTimeString();

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