laravel carbon from string code example

Example 1: carbon now format

use Carbon/Carbon
Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');

Example 2: carbon date from format

Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', $request->date)->format('d-m-Y')

Example 3: string to carbon

$date = Carbon\Carbon::parse($rawDate);