How to format date in blade?

If you get your date from a Model, then it is a Carbon Object, and you can use all the Carbon functionalitys

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

For example:

{{post-publishdate_at->->diffForHumans();}}

Hi Tomi,

Thanks for such a quick response! Unfortunately, it's not a Carbon object, It's a timestamp straight from the Stripe API.

Hmm thats a bummer. You could use something like moment.js, but thats also a Javascript library. Im not sure of there is a masking function in laravel.

Maybe you could write your own directive and call it something like:

{{ @dateFormat(post.published_at|date("m/d/Y")) }}

If its something you need in multiple views it might be worth creating a blade component for. I have a blog post that works with dates that you could adapt http://novate.co.uk/laravel-blade-to-deal-with-null-dates/

but honestly, its a lot of work just to make the view look cleaner. Better to just use Carbon directly, either in the controller or the view

{{ Carbon\Carbon::createFromTimestamp($timestamp)->toDateTimeString() }}

From you Post model you can $cast it to a date i.eprotected $dates= ['published_at']

Then it will be converted to carbon instance and you will be able to do

{{post->published_at->format("m/d/Y")}}

@skimuli already suggested (not relevant as this is not model data)

Hi Did you work this one out?

{{ date('m/d/Y', 1536300084) }}

Hi all,

Newbies solution also was what I was after but hats off to Snapey for answering with Carbon which you can get a lot more use out of. I was hoping it wouldn't be so ugly to print it out to a view.

I've come from Symfony/Twig to Laravel/Blade and just picking up on the differences.

I ended up with this in the end...

{{ Carbon\Carbon::createFromTimestamp($upcomingInvoice->date)->format('d-m-Y') }}

Thank you so much