Carbon setLocale not working Laravel

Question

Ive read several stackoverflows about set locale. I tested locale -a in the terminal to see if my locale was in there, and it was. The following rule of code is added in the appServiceProvider:

public function boot()
{
    Carbon::setLocale($this->app->getLocale());
}

The $this->app->getLocale() returns "nl"

Anyone know why Carbon still shows Sunday instead of Zondag for example?

Throttle

Answer 1

You might want to use setLocale(LC_TIME, $this->app->getLocale()) somewhere at the start of your application.

Then if you wish to have the localized date format with local names use the formatLocalized function

Carbon::now()->formatLocalized('%d %B %Y');

See http://php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php for parameter for formatting

Sikkim

{{$var->start_at->formatLocalized('d-m-Y')}} that doesnt seem to work, it just echo's d-m-y as a string – Throttle

did you add the LC_TIME setting before running that template? – Sikkim

It's in my appserviceprovider, so yea the command should run while the app starts – Throttle

oh wait, formatLocalized uses a different format. Try %d %B %Y – Sikkim

It seems the problem was Carbon::setLocale, when i used just setLocale it worked, thanks! was reading over it in your post – Throttle

formatLocalized() is not working now since PHP 8, use translatedFormat() instead – Lafontaine

Answer 2

Translating a carbon date using global localized format

Tested in: Laravel 5.8, Laravel 6, Laravel 8

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In config/app.php

'locale' => 'id', // The default is 'en', but this time I want localize them to Indonesian (ID)

Then, to make locale output do something like this:

// WITHOUT LOCALE
Carbon\Carbon::parse('2019-03-01')->format('d F Y'); //Output: "01 March 2019"
now()->subMinute(5)->diffForHumans(); // Output: "5 minutes ago"

// WITH LOCALE
Carbon\Carbon::parse('2019-03-01')->translatedFormat('d F Y'); // Output: "01 Maret 2019"
now()->subMinute(5)->diffForHumans(); // Output: "5 menit yang lalu"

For more information about converting localize dates you can see on below link https://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/#api-localization

Yettayetti

This should be used for Laravel 8 – Milburt

Note that if you use Laravel 5.5+, the locale will be automatically set according to current last App:setLocale execution. So diffForHumans, isoFormat, translatedFormat and localized properties such as ->dayName or ->monthName will be localized transparently. – Dorsum

Answer 3

Researching I have found two alternative options:

$date = Carbon::now();
$date->locale('de')->translatedFormat('d F Y');

and:

$date = Carbon::now();
$carbonDateFactory = new CarbonFactory([
  'locale' => 'de_DE',
  'timezone' => 'Europe/Paris',
]);
$carbonDateFactory->make($date)->isoFormat('d MMMM YYYY');

and the ISO compatible format symbols are here

Unstriped

Answer 4

In your AppServiceProvider's register function:

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'nl_NL.utf8');
Carbon::setLocale(config('app.locale'));

Then use translatedFormat() instead of format() or formatLocalized() which is deprecated.

This uses the date() patern which works like format() but translates the string using the current locale.

read more here and here.

Astonishment

This really works! Thanks! – Softcover

Answer 5

I solved this by calling setLocale on multiple classes:

$locale = 'nl_NL';
\Carbon\Carbon::setLocale($locale);
\Carbon\CarbonImmutable::setLocale($locale);
\Carbon\CarbonPeriod::setLocale($locale);
\Carbon\CarbonInterval::setLocale($locale);
\Illuminate\Support\Carbon::setLocale($locale);

There's also this ServiceProvider that does the same.

Clayclaybank

Answer 6

If you use newer version of Laravel with php8+ and Carbon 2 and use UTC as default timezone (like they suggest) you will encounter some issues using translatedFormat as it's not gonna convert hours.

Here is a suggestion, i use a Carbon macro to simplify. In AppServiceProvider.php boot method, you should add this (using french locale) :

        //set defaults for Carbon --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        setlocale(LC_TIME, app()->getLocale());
        date_default_timezone_set(config('app.timezone'));
        Carbon::setLocale(app()->getLocale());
        //for displaying dates with good timezone translation, we force to french !
        $userSettings = [
            'locale' => 'fr',
            'timezone' => 'Europe/Paris',
            'format' => 'd M Y H:i'
        ];
        //register a macro to be a shortcut for displaying dates !

        Carbon::macro('display', function () use ($userSettings) {
            return $this->copy()->locale($userSettings['locale'])->tz($userSettings['timezone'])->translatedFormat($userSettings['format']);
        });
        //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- set defaults for Carbon

Then when you work with a Carbon UTC date (as this is the default timezone), you can use the macro to convert it to your locale and timezone before calling translatedFormat. Example in a blade file where $message->created_at is my Carbon date.

<div class="fs-6 text-muted">{{$message->created_at->display()}}</div>

Sverdlovsk

Answer 7

try this : setLocale(LC_TIME, app()->getLocale());

Berkeley

The correct answer was given months ago. There is no need to repeat it. – Dugong