How to access Carbon object type?

Question

Given the following code:

$recordSets = Model::find(1)->get();

foreach ($recordSets as $recordSet) {
  dd($recordSet['created_at']);
}

I got this result.

object(Carbon\Carbon)[292]
  public 'date' => string '2013-08-21 17:05:19' (length=19)
  public 'timezone_type' => int 3
  public 'timezone' => string 'UTC' (length=3)

I tried to access the 'date' using

echo $recordSet['created_at']->date;

But I got an error:

Unknown getter 'date'

How to access $recordSet['created_at']? It is just for formatting of date/time purpose.

Answer 1

you should use the public function toDateTimeString()

echo $recordSet['created_at']->toDateTimeString();

Answer 2

Simply use $recordSet['created_at'].

Because of a __toString method in Carbon, read $recordSet['created_at'] will always return the date under string format.

If you want to see which method you can use, see vendor/nesbot/carbon/Carbon/Carbon.php