It'd be super helpful if you post the code block that is getting/making the timestamps. I could possibly help you from there. I'm not too sure off the top of my head what would be wrong, as it seems like it returns the years, months, and days correctly, and not the hours, minutes, and seconds. So if I could take a look at your code that would help me through your problem tremendously.

@braxtonfair

What i am trying to do here, i want a carbon date from the form input.

Form

Date format was date('Y-m-d')

Storing into Database

Setting up the model

Result

Database

As you can see, date was not formatted to Carbon

try $dates in your model, not $date

http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/eloquent-mutators#date-mutators

In your model, you are using

protected $date = ['published_at'];

Instead, it should be plural, as shown

protected $dates = ['published_at'];

Also, you are only getting the Year, Month, and Day, as shown here:

Form

{!! Form::date('published_at', 'Y-m-d', ['class' => 'form-control']) !!}

You create a Carbon date, make sure you are able to create it in your view, then do this:

Carbon::now()

@squigg and @braxton thanks for your reply mates...