What's the best way to localise a date on Laravel?

Question

Take this example:

{{ $article->created_at->format(\'M\') }}

It returns Nov. I need to localise this to my language, so

Answer 1

It is also a good idea to set locale globally for each request (eg. in filters.php) when using Carbon date instances.

App::before(function($request) {
    setlocale(LC_TIME, 'sk_SK.utf8');
});

and then proceed as usual

$dt->formatLocalized('%b'); // $dt is carbon instance

See format options here and list of locales here.