Carbon

A simple PHP API extension for DateTime. http://carbon.nesbot.com

printf("Right now is %s", Carbon::now()->toDateTimeString());
printf("Right now in Vancouver is %s", Carbon::now('America/Vancouver')); //implicit __toString()$tomorrow = Carbon::now()->addDay();
$lastWeek = Carbon::now()->subWeek();
$nextSummerOlympics = Carbon::createFromDate(2012)->addYears(4);
$officialDate = Carbon::now()->toRfc2822String();
$howOldAmI = Carbon::createFromDate(1975, 5, 21)->age;
$noonTodayLondonTime = Carbon::createFromTime(12, 0, 0, 'Europe/London');
$worldWillEnd = Carbon::createFromDate(2012, 12, 21, 'GMT');
// Don't really want to die so mock now
Carbon::setTestNow(Carbon::createFromDate(2000, 1, 1));
// comparisons are always done in UTCif (Carbon::now()->gte($worldWillEnd)) {
die();
}
// Phew! Return to normal behaviour
Carbon::setTestNow();
if (Carbon::now()->isWeekend()) {
echo'Party!';
}
echo Carbon::now()->subMinutes(2)->diffForHumans(); // '2 minutes ago'// ... but also does 'from now', 'after' and 'before'// rolling up to seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years$daysSinceEpoch = Carbon::createFromTimeStamp(0)->diffInDays();

Installation

With Composer

$ composer require nesbot/carbon

{
"require": {
"nesbot/carbon": "~1.14"
}
}

<?phprequire'vendor/autoload.php';
useCarbon\Carbon;
printf("Now: %s", Carbon::now());

### Without Composer

Why are you not using composer? Download Carbon.php from the repo and save the file into your project path somewhere.

<?phprequire'path/to/Carbon.php';
useCarbon\Carbon;
printf("Now: %s", Carbon::now());