use carbon now to set datetime code example
Example 1: carbon now format
use Carbon/Carbon
Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
Example 2: laravel carbon
$now = Carbon::now();
echo $now; // 2020-03-22 17:45:58
echo "\n";
$today = Carbon::today();
echo $today; // 2020-03-22 00:00:00
echo "\n";
$tomorrow = Carbon::tomorrow('Europe/London');
echo $tomorrow; // 2020-03-23 00:00:00
echo "\n";
$yesterday = Carbon::yesterday();
echo $yesterday; // 2020-03-21 00:00:00