Getting current date, time, and day in Laravel

I need to get the current date, time, and day using Laravel.

I tried to echo $ldate = new DateTime('today'); and $ldate = new DateTime('now');

But it is always returning 1.

How can I get the current date, time, and day?

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

Try this,

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

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') }}

If you want to use datetime class do:

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

The documentation for reference.

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') }}

For more information check doc

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

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(),
      ];

FOR LARAVEL 5.x

I think you were looking for this

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

You can try this.

use Carbon\Carbon;

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

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.

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

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.

use DateTime;

$now = new DateTime();

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()

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

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

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

data

return now()->toDateString();

Time

return now()->toTimeString(); 

//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);
		
	}
	
	 
}

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

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())}}">

today data and time

return now::();

time

return now()->toTimeString();

You can use today() function.

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

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"