Given a date string, or anything that sort of looks like a date string, format will convert it to a Carbon instance and allow you to format it with PHP's datetime format variables.
event_date: April 15 2016
{{ event_date|format('Y-m-d') }}
2016-04-15
Parameters
Day
Character
Description
Example
d
Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros
01 to 31
D
A textual representation of a day, three letters
Mon to Sun
j
Day of the month without leading zeros
1 to 31
l
A full textual representation of the day of the week
Sunday to Saturday
N
ISO 8601 numeric representation of the day of the week
1 (for Monday) to 7 (for Sunday)
S
English ordinal suffix for the day of the month, 2 characters
st, nd, rd or th. Works well with j
w
Numeric representation of the day of the week
0 (for Sunday) to 6 (for Saturday)
z
The day of the year (starting from 0)
0 to 365
Week
Character
Description
Example
W
ISO 8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday
42 (the 42nd week in the year)
Month
Value
Description
Example
F
A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March
January to December
m
Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros
01 to 12
M
A short textual representation of a month, three letters
Jan to Dec
n
Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros
1 to 12
t
Number of days in the given month
28 to 31
Year
Value
Description
Example
L
Whether it's a leap year
1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise.
o
ISO 8601 week-numbering year.
1999 or 2003
Y
A full numeric representation of a year, at least 4 digits, with - for years BCE.
-0055, 0787, 1999, 2003
y
A two digit representation of a year
99 or 03
Time
Value
Description
Example
a
Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem
am or pm
A
Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem
AM or PM
B
Swatch Internet time (it's coming back, just you wait)
000 to 999
g
12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
1 to 12
G
24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
0 to 23
h
12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
01 to 12
H
24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
00 to 23
i
Minutes with leading zeros
00 to 59
s
Seconds with leading zeros
00 to 59
u
Microseconds.
654321
v
Milliseconds. Same note applies as for u.
654
Timezone
Value
Description
Example
e
Timezone identifier
UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores
I
Whether or not the date is in daylight saving time
1 if Daylight Saving Time, 0 otherwise.
O
Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) without colon between hours and minutes
+0200
P
Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with colon between hours and minutes
+02:00
p
The same as P, but returns Z instead of +00:00 (available as of PHP 8.0.0)
+02:00
T
Timezone abbreviation, if known; otherwise the GMT offset.
EST, MDT, +05
Z
Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive.
