Laravel 5 Carbon global Locale

Question

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

config(\'app.locale\')

to work with Carbon.

It seems like you can d

Answer 1

in AppServiceProvider

public function register()
{

    // For example im gonna locale all dates to Indonesian (ID)
    config(['app.locale' => 'id']);
    \Carbon\Carbon::setLocale('id');
}

then to make locale output do something like this

// Without locale, the output gonna be like this    
Carbon\Carbon::parse('2019-03-01')->format('d F Y'); //Output: "01 March 2019"

// With locale
Carbon\Carbon::parse('2019-03-01')->translatedFormat('d F Y'); //Output: "01 Maret 2019"

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

Answer 2

I configured it in the AppServiceProvider.

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    public function boot()
    {
        // Localization Carbon

        \Carbon\Carbon::setLocale(config('app.locale'));
    }
}

Answer 3

So this is my bad, Carbon is actually using the php

setlocale();

the

Carbon::setLocale('fr')

method is only for the

->diffForHumans()

method. Notice that the php setlocale() reference to the locale stored on your OS to choose one of the installed one use

locale -a

on your console

secondly, you have to use

->formatLocalized()

method instead of

->format()

method

and lastly all the usefull methods like

->toDateString()
->toFormattedDateString()
->toTimeString()
->toDateTimeString()
->toDayDateTimeString()

are not being localized

and lastly you have to use these parsing letters

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php