Carbon::parse not working as expected

@Uhanalainen parse never sets time part, unless you provide it. parseFromFormat always sets it, just like you said.

But you can't give parse any more parameters than one, $date, which is a string, and doesn't hold the time information, which can be seen if you dd($date). So where does Jeffrey's app get the timestamp from? Because it's obviously working on his machine. And that's with Carbon::parse.

The video I'm talking about is this one:

https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-5-fundamentals/episodes/11

He is doing two different things there (let's assume the date is today and my timezone)

His first attempt is without carbon and he uses the date input so it will only give back the date. If you want the time with it, just change the input type to datetime

{!! Form::input('datetime', 'published_at', date('Y-m-d'), ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}

Back to Carbon, Carbon will get the time for you since it's available in the system ;)

Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', $date); // 2015-02-27 10:53:00

Finally a date with a time that's set to zero

Carbon::parse($date); // 2015-02-27 00:00:00

@Uhanalainen I'm not watching the video and not referring to it, but I suppose you don't know how parse can be used.

You pass any string representation of a date/timestamp to the method:

[1] > Carbon::parse('-1 day');
// object(Carbon\Carbon)(
//   'date' => '2015-02-26 11:18:58',
//   'timezone_type' => 3,
//   'timezone' => 'Europe/Warsaw'
// )
[2] > Carbon::parse('tomorrow');
// object(Carbon\Carbon)(
//   'date' => '2015-02-28 00:00:00',
//   'timezone_type' => 3,
//   'timezone' => 'Europe/Warsaw'
// )
[3] > Carbon::parse('1 year 1 month 22 day 5 hour');
// object(Carbon\Carbon)(
//   'date' => '2016-04-18 16:19:17',
//   'timezone_type' => 3,
//   'timezone' => 'Europe/Warsaw'
// )
[4] > Carbon::parse('-1 year 1 month 22 day 5 hour');
// object(Carbon\Carbon)(
//   'date' => '2014-04-18 16:19:23',
//   'timezone_type' => 3,
//   'timezone' => 'Europe/Warsaw'
// )
[5] > Carbon::parse('2015-02-20 12:55:11');
// object(Carbon\Carbon)(
//   'date' => '2015-02-20 12:55:11',
//   'timezone_type' => 3,
//   'timezone' => 'Europe/Warsaw'
// )
[6] > Carbon::parse('2015-02-20');
// object(Carbon\Carbon)(
//   'date' => '2015-02-20 00:00:00',
//   'timezone_type' => 3,
//   'timezone' => 'Europe/Warsaw'
// )

@hikups you should have opened a new question but linked to this one as this can only confuse new readers of the question.

See the Guidelines for posting on Laracasts.com.

What is it exactly you're trying to do, and what have you tried? What code do you have?

@hikups that's ok, please don't apologise otherwise I'll feel bad, just wanted to point out otherwise it can be confusing. Do you want to edit what you just wrote, copy & paste it into a new question and I'll try my best to help.

Also, if you wouldn't mind, could you add to it the code form your view, your model and your controller that handle the saving of the posts.

Thanks.