Carbon create from timestamp

Question

I am trying to convert some dates

<p>{{ Carbon\Carbon::parse($post->created_at)->diffForHumans() }}</p>

This works fine as the date is in the format 2017-05-01 10:52:51

However I also have the dates stored as unix timestamps.

How can I covert these to a date?

I already tried

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

Error - A non well formed numeric value encountered

The dump is

 <pre class="xdebug-var-dump" dir="ltr"> <small>int</small> <font color="#4e9a06">1493637826</font> </pre>

This is what I already tried Carbon\Carbon::createFromTimestamp($post->created_at)->toDateTimeString() }} — LeBlaireau
– LeBlaireau, Commented May 1, 2017 at 11:21
Hi Robbie, no this is how I thought it would work and checked out the documentation before. It only seems to work with 1 or -1 as the argument. — LeBlaireau
– LeBlaireau, Commented May 1, 2017 at 11:26
Can you share some example data from the $post->created_at value? (var_export) — scrowler
– scrowler, Commented May 1, 2017 at 11:30

Matt K · Accepted Answer · 2023-03-06 23:34:58Z

Your first attempt using createFromTimestamp() is correct, so there must be something wrong with your input. Here is a working example:

>>> \Carbon\Carbon::createFromTimestamp(1493637826)->toDateTimeString(); => "2017-05-01 11:23:46"

The error you encountered suggests you're passing in a DateTime string, not a unix timestamp:

>>> \Carbon\Carbon::createFromTimestamp('2017-05-01 11:23:46')->toDateTimeString(); PHP Notice: A non well formed numeric value encountered

LeBlaireau · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-03 08:34:19Z

In the end I had to use gmdate to convert the timestamp.

{{ Carbon\Carbon::parse(gmdate("Y-m-d\TH:i:s", $post->date_posted))->diffForHumans() }}

It is strange because it should work the way Robbie Averill suggested.

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