Format date with Carbon diffForHumans

Hi @adgower,

Does this works?

 $event = Carbon\Carbon::parse($events->first()->start_date);
 $diffInHours = $event->diffInHours(Carbon\Carbon::now());
 dd($diffInHours);

@mvd it returns "5" I assume hours. Technically it should be 42 minutes ago and if it rounds up 1hr ago

When I run

{{Carbon\Carbon::now()}}

Returns

"2020-07-13 13:50:05"

Which is off by 5 hours. I set env variable to:

APP_TIMEZONE=America/Chicago

And ran

php artisan config:clear

@adgower I don't think there's an official way of displaying 'Tomorrow' or getting carbon to return date after using diffForHumans(). Not that I know of.

Maybe what you can do is check if the date you want is equal to the date for tomorrow and display Tomorrow

You can do this by checking with the isTomorrow() carbon method.

Setting the timezone in the now fixed it for me. Is this the best solution?

{{Carbon\Carbon::now('America/Chicago')->diffForHumans($events->first()->start_date)}}

Returns

1 hour after

Which is correct! Thanks for assisting me.

Just for reference for anyone else looking at this, base time zone should be set in your config file:

config\app.php

'timezone' => 'America/New_York',

Also, you can set Carbon with one day words (and lots of other options):

$date->endOfDay()->diffForHumans(['options' => Carbon\Carbon::ONE_DAY_WORDS]);

Carbon::ONE_DAY_WORDS (disabled by default): turns "1 day from now/ago" to "yesterday/tomorrow"

https://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/#api-humandiff