can I calculate difference between 6 AM to 12 AM in hours using carbon in Laravel?

Question

I'm having a problem with the Laravel project and I want to estimate the difference of 2-time in my project using the carbon package. The below code is what I used to calculate.

        $carbon_startDate = Carbon::parse($working_time['start_time'])->format('H:i:s');
        $carbon_edate = Carbon::parse($working_time['end_time'])->format('H:i:s');
        $totalDuration = Carbon::parse($carbon_startDate)->diffInHours($carbon_edate);

But here I am facing a new problem. I set the start time to 6 AM and the end time is 12 AM. Actually, I want the result to be 18 hours, but I got the result in 6 hours. Anyone can help me to solve this problem. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I could not find a better solution to this problem. So I do it my own way.

here is the code,

if($carbon_startDate > $carbon_edate){
    $date= Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d');
    $start_time = Carbon::parse($working_time['start_time'])->format(' H:i:s');
    $first_time = $date.$start_time;

    $date2= Carbon::now();
    $next_date = $date2->addDays(1)->format('Y-m-d');
    $end_time = Carbon::parse($working_time['end_time'])->format(' H:i:s');
    $last_time = $next_date.$end_time;
    $totalDuration = Carbon::parse($first_time)->diffInHours($last_time);
 }else{
    $totalDuration = Carbon::parse($carbon_startDate)->diffInHours($carbon_edate);
    $totalDuration= round($totalDuration/$min_duration);
   }