Parse complex string to carbon date

Question

I am using Laravel Framework 6.16.0 and want to parse a date with carbon "Dec 14 02:04 PM":

$fillingDate = "Dec 14 02:04 PM";
$filling_Date = Carbon::parse($fillingDate, 'UTC'); 
// result is only a string "Dec 14 02:04 PM"

When using the above structure I only get the string back. However, I would like to get a Carbon object that gets then formatted to ->format('Y-m-d').

Any suggestions what I am doing wrong?

I appreciate your replies!

Carbon::parse() should either return a Carbon instance or an "InvalidFormatException". Carbon::parse($fillingDate, 'UTC') should give back a full Carbon instance — Donkarnash
– Donkarnash, Commented Dec 14, 2020 at 19:18
Did you do dd($filling_date)? It is a Carbon instance in my code: => Carbon\Carbon @1607954640 {#3300 date: 2020-12-14 14:04:00.0 UTC (+00:00), timezone_type: 3, timezone: "UTC", } — Tim Lewis
– Tim Lewis, Commented Dec 14, 2020 at 19:18
Does this answer your question? How could i create carbon object from given datetime structure? — miken32
– miken32, Commented Dec 14, 2020 at 22:40

fff · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-14 19:24:57Z

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You can create carbon object from a string by calling the static function createFromFormat.

In this case:

$fillingDate = "Dec 14 02:04 PM";    
$filling_Date = Carbon::createFromFormat("M d g:i A", $fillingDate)

Format characters explained:

M - A short textual representation of a month, three letters
d - Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros
g - 12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
i - Minutes with leading zeros
A - Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem

More about format characters: PHP documentation

answered Dec 14, 2020 at 19:24

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