Laravel 5 Carbon global Locale

Question

I'm trying to set the same global locale of laravel which is :

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config('app.locale')

to work with Carbon.

It seems like you can do it by using either :

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Carbon::setLocale('fr')

or

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setlocale(LC_TIME, 'theLocale');

So I have tried using middleware or providers but was not successful.

(why is this not a default feature of laravel?)

Answer 1

Translating a carbon date using global localized format

Tested in: Laravel 5.8, Laravel 6, Laravel 8

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In config/app.php

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'locale' => 'id', // The default is 'en', but this time I want localize them to Indonesian (ID)

Then, to make locale output do something like this:

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// WITHOUT LOCALE
Carbon\Carbon::parse('2019-03-01')->format('d F Y'); //Output: "01 March 2019"
now()->subMinute(5)->diffForHumans(); // Output: "5 minutes ago"

// WITH LOCALE
Carbon\Carbon::parse('2019-03-01')->translatedFormat('d F Y'); // Output: "01 Maret 2019"
now()->subMinute(5)->diffForHumans(); // Output: "5 menit yang lalu"

For more information about converting localize dates you can see on below link https://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/#api-localization