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I'm using laravel8 API with reactjs Frontend I don't know How to set dateTime Format in laravel part to Central European Summer Time. Any Suggestion Please this is my migration code : $table->dateTime('visit_issue_date');
You can use Carbon to parse the incoming string to allow you pass a valid Y-m-d H:i:s string format to the database
$date = \Carbon\Carbon::parse($request->input('visit_issue_date'));
If you need to convert to equivalent UTC time (for storage)
$date = \Carbon\Carbon::parse($request->input('visit_issue_date'))->setTimezone('UTC');
Now I get this error : "Could not parse 'Mon Apr 04 2022 11:32:56 GMT+0200" @tykus
@Syrine123 correct - if you are unsure how, share the Controller action.
$visitor->visit_issue_date=\Carbon\Carbon::parse($request->input('visit_issue_date'));
@Syrine123 okay... so you have a Visitor instance, and you're setting a value from the parsed string. This should be working, no?
@tykus Yes But I should parse it into central europeen summer time not UTC.. I think the problem is in the timezone
@Syrine123 but you are not modifying the timezone in the example above - for the given input:
Wed Aug 24 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0200
what is being stored in the database?
@tykus I juste declare it as datetime: $table->dateTime('visit_issue_date');
@Syrine123 right. And your app.timezone is configured to???
@tykus 'timezone' => 'UTC',
@syrine123 do you prefer to store the date and time as UTC or CET in the database???
@tykus I want it GMT +0200 as in the frontend because I can't change it in the front so I have to make it compatible with the frontend
@Syrine123 that is a formatting; not a persistence consideration. You can describe how a date is serialized on the model https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/eloquent-serialization#date-serialization
I found this solution : $visitor->visit_issue_date=date('Y-m-d', strtotime($request->input('visit_issue_date')));
But In the frontend it works correctly only for current date but for other input dates it displayed 1970-01-01 as output @tykus @ralston69 do you have any idea how to make .toISOString in laravel ?
@Syrine123 how are you passing the date to the view - is it a Carbon instance? How are you using the date in the view?
@tykus I use a react-flatpickr. The current date worked correctly jecause I declare it as a new Date(). ToISOString() but the others not because Idon't know how to make it iso
@Syrine123 code???
@tykus <Col sm='12' className='mb-1'> <Label className='form-label' for='visit_issue_date'> Visit Issue Date <span className='text-danger'>* </Label> <Flatpickr className='form-control' value={visit_issue_date} id='visit_issue_date' options={{ dateFormat: 'Y-m-d', }} onChange = {(date) => { setIssueDate(date) } } /> </Col>
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