Carbon parse to ISO8601

Question

I am trying to get the current time and format it like:

"2018-09-26T21:40:29+02:00"

But when I try:

$isoDate = \Carbon\Carbon::now()->format('c');

as I understood passing a c to format function will parse it to iso8601 but clearly thats not the case.

Any help on how to parse current time to ISO8601 OR 20181001T094006Z

Pittsburgh

There's no single 8601 format. Construct it yourself with the date formats. – Fell

@Devon wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 – Pittsburgh

What happens when you try what you have? c should translate to ISO8601. Here's what I get when I run echo \Carbon\Carbon::now()->format("c");: 2018-09-26T20:05:30+00:00 – Souterrain

@AladinSmall, yes, and there are about 8 different formats there... – Fell

@Devon i think I am very constructive on my question, however due to my poor reputation I am a good catch for trolling. So please read the question again its specified what kind of iso format : ISO8601 OR 20181001T094006Z – Pittsburgh

Did you atleast try to read the format manual and construct it yourself using existing characters like YmdTHisZ – Fell

@Souterrain I did tried but I get this : 2018-09-26T21:40:29+02:00 which is not acceptable from the web service that I am trying to sent, as they want smth like: 20181001T094006Z . I mean I know the ugly way of parsing it that way by extracting year month .... and concat but It must be smth that I am missing. – Pittsburgh

That's exactly what you're looking for, according to your question... – Souterrain

@Devon do u know what should I pass in order to get the correct format ? – Pittsburgh

What output did you get? – Vesicle

@Devon that was it \Carbon\Carbon::now()->format('YmdTHisZ') I get: "20180926CEST2216517200" thats what I need to know so add the answer to mark the question as problem solved. thanks. – Pittsburgh

Ok, so T and Z are format characters so escaping them with a backslash should work – Fell

@Devon works. thanks finally on the same frequency. – Pittsburgh

Consider changing accepted answer. Nurdin's answer works. – Unideaed

Answer 1

There is no single 8601 format. 8601 defines various acceptable formats, of which PHP's c represents one of the most common forms.

There is no single character for the specific 8601 format you wish but a format of Ymd\THis\Z should work. T and Zare literal, so escape them with a backslash to avoid them being interpreted in the format string. Be sure that only UTC timestamps are used with this particular format.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php lists all the acceptable format characters.

Fell

Are you sure that this is a valid ISO 8601 format? I don't think the hyphens between year, month and date are optional neither the colons between hour, minute and seconds. – Appendant

Yes. Like I said in the answer and comments, 8601 has multiple formats. – Fell

Answer 2

Carbon::now()->toISOString()

this will return 2020-05-12T13:13:42.817684Z

Carbon::now()->toIso8601String()

this will return 2020-05-12T13:15:32+00:00

using corePHP

date(DateTime::ATOM, time())

this will return 2021-08-22T15:26:48+10:00

Pay

Answer 3

echo Carbon::now()->toIso8601String();

Komarek