Published in Laravel 5

Laravel 5: Get the Current Date With today

By John Koster

The today helper function is similar to the now helper function in that it returns a Carbon for the current date, however, the difference is that the today helper function only returns the date component; the time component is set to 00:00:00.

The today function also accepts an optional timezone parameter to adjust the timezone of the returned Carbon instance.

#Signature

The signature of the today function is:

1function today(

2    $tz = null

3);

#Example Use

The following example demonstrates the usage of the today helper function to get the current date:

1// Get the current day of the year.

2$dayOfYear = today()->dayOfYear;

3

4// Supply a timezone and get the day of the week.

5$dayOfWeek = today('Europe/London')->dayOfWeek;

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