Carbon formatLocalized not working in Blade

Question

In a Blade view I have this code

{{ \Carbon\Carbon::setLocale("es") }} {{ $registro->fecha_desde->format("l j F Y") }}<br /> {{ $registro->fecha_desde->formatLocalized("%A %d %B %Y") }}<br /> {{ $registro->fecha_desde->diffForHumans() }}

This does not work, it returns:

Friday 30 December 2016
Friday 30 December 2016
dentro de 1 semana 

So, format() and formatLocalized always returns the date in english format. diffForHumans returns the date localized (in spanish in this case).

Am I missing something? cant believe "Carbon's formatLocalized" is not returning localized formated dates....

Benzedrine

Official Nesbot Carbon docs. – Recycle

Answer 1

I found two ways to output dates in other language. add this in the AppServiceProvider

    Carbon::setLocale('es');
    setlocale(LC_TIME,'es_ES');

//This output dates in spanish

In App.php put 'es' instead 'en'. now you can use FormatLocalized and all Carbon Functions will be in the language that you assign in setLocale.

Note: If you're using Oracle DB add:

 setlocale(LC_TIME, config('app.locale'));

instead:

setlocale(LC_TIME,'es_ES');

Admeasure

Answer 2

Found it. The problems is \Carbon::setlocale()

This looks ugly but works:

{{ setlocale(LC_ALL, 'es_MX', 'es', 'ES') }}
{{ $registro->fecha_desde->formatLocalized("%A %d %B %Y") }}

Output:

es viernes 30 diciembre 2016

Benzedrine

so, do you simply removed Carbon::setLocale() from app service provider? – Collage

Answer 3

Open AppServiceProvider.php Call class of carbon use Carbon\Carbon;

public function boot()
{
  Carbon::setUTF8(true);
  Carbon::setLocale(config('app.locale'));
  setlocale(LC_TIME, config('app.locale'));
}

in the config folder open app.php

set 'locale' => 'es',

on ubuntu

public function boot()
{
   Carbon::setUTF8(true);
   Carbon::setLocale(config('app.locale'));
   setlocale(LC_TIME,'');
} 

Dunite

Method setUTF8 is deprecated – Recycle

In Laravel 8, you better create a middleware in case you want to use App::currentLocale() (which is dynamic) instead of config('app.locale') (which is static) – Stovall

Answer 4

to view formats with additional accents, you have to enable UTF8 encoding, before formatting:

\Carbon::setUTF8(true);

Cellaret

Answer 5

Nowadays it's better to use ->isoFormat('dddd DD MMMM YYYY') instead of ->formatLocalized('%A %d %B %Y') because formatLocalized() is deprecated.

So it can look like this:

{{ setlocale(LC_ALL, 'es_MX', 'es', 'ES') }}
{{ $registro->fecha_desde->isoFormat('dddd DD MMMM YYYY') }}

Colwell

Another option is to use translatedFormat() which uses the php date formats as listed here: php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php – Amarillas