How do I force a Laravel Carbon Object to change from ["date"]=> string(26) "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:DD" to ["date"]=> string(10) "YYYY-MM-DD"

You using method format of Carbon

Just as suggested above.

Something along the lines of:

$date->format('Y-m-d')

Have a look at http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php the the options to format. Standard PHP date.

Sorry, I was not clear.

I have $article['published_at'] object:

object(Carbon\Carbon)#197 (3) { ["date"]=> string(26) "2017-02-28 00:00:00.000000" ["timezone_type"]=> int(3) ["timezone"]=> string(3) "UTC" }

I want to convert it to:

object(Carbon\Carbon)#197 (3) { ["date"]=> string(10) "2017-02-28" ["timezone_type"]=> int(3) ["timezone"]=> string(3) "UTC" }

@BernardK try $date->toDateString(); Same as echo $date->format('Y-m-d');

Use an accessor? https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/eloquent-mutators#accessors-and-mutators

use the method strtotime : {{ date('F nS, Y - g:iA', strtotime($post->created_at)) }} you can customize the date by following the following php documentation page: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

hope that helps

When you dump the Carbon object, it is asked to present the object as a string. You are seeing the default format that the object returns when its __toString method is called.

From the docs; http://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/#api-formatting

You can also set the default __toString() format (which defaults to Y-m-d H:i:s) thats used when type juggling occurs.

Carbon::setToStringFormat('jS \o\f F, Y g:i:s a');

( this should be called once not per instance, but will affect all dates)

However, most would just format the date where it required by using the ->format() method or any of the other built in formats.