Carbon Creating Date From String

Question

Hello I have the following line of code in my application:

$deposit = new BankDeposit();
$deposit->date_occurred = Carbon::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $request->date_occurred);
$deposit->amount = $request->amount;
$deposit->save();

where $request->date_occurred is 19/10/2016. Now something funny is happening, when I post this data from my android app and to the server, the server receives the date but somehow parses and saves it as

0016-10-19 08:48:14

However when I post from postman using exactly the same values I did in the android app I get:

2016-10-19 08:48:14

I've inspected both requests and I can't tell what is wrong. This is the request and response when I use postman:

{
  "request": {
    "date_occurred": "19/10/2016",
    "amount": "5000"
  },
  "response": {
    "date_occurred": "2016-10-19 08:52:33",
    "amount": "5000",
    "updated_at": "2016-10-06 08:52:33",
    "created_at": "2016-10-06 08:52:33",
  }
}

This is what I see when I log the response in my android monitor:

{
    "request": {
        "date_occurred": "19\/10\/16",
        "amount":"2323"
    },
    "response": {
        "date_occurred": "0016-10-19 08:48:14",
        "amount": "2323",
        "created_at": "2016-10-06 08:48:14",
        "updated_at": "2016-10-06 08:48:14"

    }
}

Answer 1

Your android app is not sending the "Y" year notation. But it's sending in y.