A comprehensive guide to using the Carbon library for date and time management in PHP and Laravel. Covers installation, creating Carbon instances, adding and subtracting time units, getters and setters, formatting dates, human-readable diffs with diffForHumans(), Laravel Eloquent integration with $casts, mutable vs immutable Carbon instances, and time zone handling.
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IntroductionKey TakeawaysPrerequisitesSetting Up the ProjectGetting a Specific Date and TimeCreating Dates with More Fine-Grained ControlManipulating the Date and TimeUsing Getters and SettersFormatting Date and TimeCalculating Relative TimeUsing Carbon with Eloquent in LaravelCarbon vs PHP DateTime and CarbonImmutableTime zone best practices with CarbonFAQsConclusionSort: