# Carbon

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An international PHP extension for DateTime. [https://carbon.nesbot.com](https://carbon.nesbot.com)

> [!NOTE]  
> We're migrating the repository from [briannesbitt/Carbon](https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon) to [CarbonPHP/carbon](https://github.com/CarbonPHP/carbon),
> which means if you're looking specific issues/pull-requests, you may have to search both. No other impact as code on both will be kept up to date. 

```php
<?php

use Carbon\Carbon;

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();

$officialDate = Carbon::now()->toRfc2822String();

$howOldAmI = Carbon::createFromDate(1975, 5, 21)->age;

$noonTodayLondonTime = Carbon::createFromTime(12, 0, 0, 'Europe/London');

$internetWillBlowUpOn = Carbon::create(2038, 01, 19, 3, 14, 7, 'GMT');

// Don't really want this to happen so mock now
Carbon::setTestNow(Carbon::createFromDate(2000, 1, 1));

// comparisons are always done in UTC
if (Carbon::now()->gte($internetWillBlowUpOn)) {
    die();
}

// Phew! Return to normal behaviour
Carbon::setTestNow();

if (Carbon::now()->isWeekend()) {
    echo 'Party!';
}
// Over 200 languages (and over 500 regional variants) supported:
echo Carbon::now()->subMinutes(2)->diffForHumans(); // '2 minutes ago'
echo Carbon::now()->subMinutes(2)->locale('zh_CN')->diffForHumans(); // '2分钟前'
echo Carbon::parse('2019-07-23 14:51')->isoFormat('LLLL'); // 'Tuesday, July 23, 2019 2:51 PM'
echo Carbon::parse('2019-07-23 14:51')->locale('fr_FR')->isoFormat('LLLL'); // 'mardi 23 juillet 2019 14:51'

// ... but also does 'from now', 'after' and 'before'
// rolling up to seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years

$daysSinceEpoch = Carbon::createFromTimestamp(0)->diffInDays(); // something such as:
                                                                // 19817.6771
$daysUntilInternetBlowUp = $internetWillBlowUpOn->diffInDays(); // Negative value since it's in the future:
                                                                // -5037.4560

// Without parameter, difference is calculated from now, but doing $a->diff($b)
// it will count time from $a to $b.
Carbon::createFromTimestamp(0)->diffInDays($internetWillBlowUpOn); // 24855.1348
```

## Installation

### With Composer

```
$ composer require nesbot/carbon
```

```json
{
    "require": {
        "nesbot/carbon": "^3"
    }
}
```

```php
<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Carbon\Carbon;

printf("Now: %s", Carbon::now());
```

### Without Composer

Why are you not using [composer](https://getcomposer.org/)? Download the Carbon [latest release](https://github.com/CarbonPHP/carbon/releases) and put the contents of the ZIP archive into a directory in your project. Then require the file `autoload.php` to get all classes and dependencies loaded on need.

```php
<?php
require 'path-to-Carbon-directory/autoload.php';

use Carbon\Carbon;

printf("Now: %s", Carbon::now());
```

## Documentation

[https://carbon.nesbot.com/docs](https://carbon.nesbot.com/docs)

## Security contact information

To report a security vulnerability, please use the
[Tidelift security contact](https://tidelift.com/security).
Tidelift will coordinate the fix and disclosure.

## Credits

### Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. 

<a href="https://github.com/CarbonPHP/carbon/graphs/contributors" target="_blank"><img src="https://opencollective.com/Carbon/contributors.svg?width=890&button=false" /></a>

### Translators

[Thanks to people helping us to translate Carbon in so many languages](https://carbon.nesbot.com/contribute/translators/)

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