Date formating for database storage.

So I was wondering, I have a simple form that is used to add new 'Issues/Improvements' to one of my projects and one of the fields it's of course a "Deadline" date field. I used the Daterangepicker js library cause I find it nice and easy to use even though a normal Html input field did the work just right.

So as you very well know SQL dates are stored in the format Y-m-d. So I had to somehow alter the 'deadline' in order to be able to be stored (my format was DD/MM/YYYY). Came up with two ways of doing it.

1. Using a Mutator in my model

​``` function setDeadlineAttribute($date) {

    return $this->attributes['deadline'] = Carbon::parse($date);

}

​```

1. In my IssuesController@store (abstract) I create 2 new variables store the date and use Carbon to format it.

​``` public function store(IssueRequest $request) { $input = $request->input('deadline'); $date = Carbon::parse($input)->format('Y/m/d');

    $issue = Issue::create([
      'name' => $request->input('name'),
      'deadline' => $date,
      'priority' => $request->input('priority'),
      'description' => $request->input('description'),
    ]);

​```

As mentioned above both work but I can't but feel that the mutator option is the way to go. Maybe there is an even better/cleaner way to do this that you follow (better coding standards), I don't know that is why I am asking for your personal views on the matter!

Many thanks!