Published in Laravel 5

Laravel 5: Getting the Current Date and Time With now

By John Koster

The now helper function will return a new Carbon instance initialized to the current date and time. The now function accepts an optional timezone parameter to adjust the timezone of the returned date.

#Signature

The signature of the now function is:

1function now(

2    $tz = null

3);

#Example Use

The following example demonstrates the usage of the now helper function.

1// Get the current Atom formatted date and time.

2$atomDateTime = now()->toAtomString();

3

4// Get the current date and time for America/Toronto.

5$americaToronto = now('America/Toronto');

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