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elapez
Asked: 2022-06-22 12:06:59 +0800 CST 2022-06-22 12:06:59 +0800 CST

How to correctly display a date in Spanish, using Carbon?

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I clarify that although I am in a PHP environment with Eloquent-ORM and using Carbon to handle dates on the server side, I am NOT using Laravel. I want to show a date in Spanish using Carbon, but I can't get it to show in that language, I have this:

use Carbon\Carbon;
Carbon::setLocale("es");

$fechaCarbon = Carbon::parse($miEgreso->created_at)->toDayDateTimeString();

I have also tried:

$fechaCarbon = Carbon::parse($miEgreso->created_at)->locale("es")->toDayDateTimeString();

In both cases I get something like:

"Mon, Jan 4, 2021 4:53 PM"

When I expect to get:

"Mon, Jan 4, 2021 4:53 PM"

Or something similar where it is interpreted that the expression is in Spanish.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Carbon doesn't seem to have localization support for many of its native features, so you have to do a bit of work around translations. In this case using isoFormat is a way out. For example, if you use:

    now()->locale('es-ES')->isoFormat('ddd ,MMM D, YYYY h:mm a');

    Which would come to the same thing if you use:

    now()->locale('es-ES')->isoFormat('llll');

    You will get as output:"lun. ,jun. 21, 2021 5:03 p. m."

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