laravel need to display only date not time using the carbon class

Question

currently i am using

Carbon::now()

it displays

2015-03-10 23:23:46

but i only need

Answer 1

Get Today's Date in Y-m-d formta as given below,

$dt = Carbon::today()->toDateString(); // Use today to display only date

if you have used $dt = Carbon::today() only, it will return the timestamp also.