How do I get the difference of time in human readable format with Laravel 5?

Question

I want to display the difference between the current date and time with the one stored in the updated_at column. However, I want it to be human-friendly like:

Answer 1

incase of the date is in a string format, use laravel Carbon; e.g,

 {{ \Carbon\Carbon::parse($on_revision->assignment->deadline)->diffForhumans() }}

Notice how I wrap my string in the carbon::parse()