Class 'App\Carbon\Carbon' not found Laravel 5

Question

I recently run sudo composer update

Now on one of my pages, I kept getting

I did use

$now = Carbon\Carbon::now('America/New_York');

in line 792 on my Helper.php

My Helper.php located at app/Helper.php

How do I prevent this ?

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This is what I have in my aliases

'aliases' => [

    'App'       => Illuminate\Support\Facades\App::class,
    'Artisan'   => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan::class,
    'Auth'      => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth::class,
    'Blade'     => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Blade::class,
    'Bus'       => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Bus::class,
    'Cache'     => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache::class,
    'Config'    => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Config::class,
    'Cookie'    => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cookie::class,
    'Crypt'     => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Crypt::class,
    'DB'        => Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB::class,
    'Eloquent'  => Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model::class,
    'Event'     => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Event::class,
    'File'      => Illuminate\Support\Facades\File::class,
    'Gate'      => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Gate::class,
    'Hash'      => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash::class,
    'Input'     => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input::class,
    'Inspiring' => Illuminate\Foundation\Inspiring::class,
    'Lang'      => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Lang::class,
    'Log'       => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log::class,
    'Mail'      => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail::class,
    'Password'  => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Password::class,
    'Queue'     => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Queue::class,
    'Redirect'  => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redirect::class,
    'Redis'     => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redis::class,
    'Request'   => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Request::class,
    'Response'  => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Response::class,
    'Route'     => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route::class,
    'Schema'    => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema::class,
    'Session'   => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Session::class,
    'Storage'   => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage::class,
    'URL'       => Illuminate\Support\Facades\URL::class,
    'Validator' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator::class,
    'View'      => Illuminate\Support\Facades\View::class,

    /*
     * Extra Alias ...
     */

    'Form'        => 'Illuminate\Html\FormFacade',
    'Html'        => 'Illuminate\Html\HtmlFacade',

    /*
     * Custom ...
     */

    'VSE'         => App\VSE::class,
    'Helper'      => App\Helper::class,
    'DateHelper'  => App\Helpers\DateHelper::class,
    'DD'          => App\Helpers\DD::class,
    'Facebook'    => SammyK\LaravelFacebookSdk\FacebookFacade::class,


],

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Answer 1

In the context of the helpers file, I believe Carbon\Carbon = App\Carbon\Carbon

Whereas \Carbon\Carbon would be pulling in what you want!

Using the \ at the beginning refers to a sort of global namespace.

Answer 2

Use Carbon:

use Carbon\Carbon;