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Laravel 5 Carbon global Locale

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 do it by using either :

Carbon::setLocale('fr')

or 

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'theLocale');

So I have tried using middleware or providers but was not successful.

(why is this not a default feature of laravel?)

Solution

  • 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