Getting current date, time, and day in Laravel [duplicate]

Question

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?

Glennglenna

I think the main problem is that you're doing echo $now = new DateTime(); whereas instead you should just set the variable without the echo (i.e. do $now = new DateTime();) and then when you want to echo it you need to use the format() method (docs): echo $now->format('Y-m-d'); – Winwaloe

Answer 1

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

Gascon

use Carbon\Carbon; is the namespace declaration – Strage

how to extract dayname from 2016/2/20 in laravel 5?? please reply – Rameau

@Glennglenna Use Carbon::now()->format('d-m-Y') – Suffer

catch up on your Carbon documentation. No one will write code for you. The answer provides what was asked by the OP. – Ekaterina

Answer 2

Try this,

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

Kowalski

This is the kind of php way, how can i go for laravel way – Glennglenna

@Chennai Why do you need it to do the "laravel" way? Laravel is the "php way" :) – Tadeas

When you have access to classes like Carbon that are fully tested it's always useful to utilise them. Why reinvent the wheel when there's already a robust implementation that does what you need and more? – Gascon

@Gascon Using built in core functions is not reinventing the wheel. People always want to overcomplicate things :S – Tadeas

Lets say down the road after you've finished your project you find that you need to implement timezones in your dates to allow different users to have the correct times. Would you want to go back and recode every time you have a date/time field pop up? I doubt it. date returns a string, there are core functions too allow parsing of the string but why limit yourself in that way in terms of flexibility? Check out the Carbon docs. – Gascon

You just set the right timezone in global config and that's it, the same way as carbon works. It's just silly to do things "laravel way", because it looks more fancy? How is this \Carbon\Carbon::now()->format('d.m.Y'); better than date('d.m.Y') ? – Tadeas

Thanks So, the date('Y-m-d H:i:s') won't hurt by anyway right ? – Glennglenna

@MārtiņšBriedis The Laravel / Carbon way does have its benefits. For example if you want to use their useful wrapper functions to manipulate date objects you can easily do this with very readable code and it also handles timezone issues and other tedious date formatting. If its part of the framework then its always good to use the abstractions. – Revolution

Answer 3

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') }}

Mattoid

Answer 4

If you want to use datetime class do:

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

The documentation for reference.

Strikebound

Answer 5

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

Cherianne

Answer 6

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

Edify

Answer 7

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(),
          ];

Frederickafredericks

Answer 8

FOR LARAVEL 5.x

I think you were looking for this

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

Warmongering

Answer 9

You can try this.

use Carbon\Carbon;

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

Rosenblast

Answer 10

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.

Ramp

Answer 11

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

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

If

Answer 12

data

return now()->toDateString();

Time

return now()->toTimeString(); 

Oliveira

now()->getTimestamp() also working – Herminahermine

Answer 13

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.

Kitkitchen

Answer 14

Try this,

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

to Timestamp.

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

Elveraelves

Answer 15

use DateTime;

$now = new DateTime();

Bricklaying

Answer 16

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()

Adventuresome

Answer 17

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

Devastate

Answer 18

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())}}">

Mimosa

Answer 19

//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);

    }


}

Prompter

Answer 20

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

Valse

Answer 21

You can use today() function.

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

Bull

Answer 22

today data and time

return now::();

time

return now()->toTimeString();

Oliveira

Hi ali, with 21 other answers already present, it would be great if you could add an explanation to your code to help us understand how it is different from other answers and how it solves the problem in the way that other answers dont. Thanks! – Radiator