Laravel Carbon See if date is in the past

Question

I am very confused by this, maybe its something simple I am not seeing. If I want to see if a date is in the past of today I should be able to do something like this?

Answer 1

Check the section “Comparison” on carbon docs. You should call $first->lte($second) to compare two carbon instances.

Answer 2

There's built-in Carbon method isPast so you can use:

$league->date_start->isPast()

to determine if date is in past or not

Answer 3

Try using if ($league->date_start->diffInSeconds() >= 0). The method diffInSeconds returns the difference between the current time and your carbon instance.

Here's an example of an output from tinker -

>>> $now = \Carbon\Carbon::now();
=> Carbon\Carbon {#648
     +"date": "2017-11-01 16:41:04.000000",
     +"timezone_type": 3,
     +"timezone": "UTC",
   }
>>> $now->diffInSeconds();
=> 5
>>> $now->diffInSeconds();
=> 7
>>> $now->diffInSeconds();
=> 8
>>> $now->diffInSeconds();
=> 10
>>> $now->diffInSeconds() > 0
=> true