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($fillingDate, 'UTC')` should give back a full Carbon instance — Donkarnash, Dec 14 '20 at 19:18
Did you do `dd($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, Dec 14 '20 at 19:18
Does this answer your question? [How could i create carbon object from given datetime structure?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41236385/how-could-i-create-carbon-object-from-given-datetime-structure) — miken32, Dec 14 '20 at 22:40
See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34971082/create-date-carbon-in-laravel — miken32, Dec 14 '20 at 22:40

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '20 at 19:24

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

Parse complex string to carbon date

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