Laravel 5 Carbon global Locale

Question

I'm trying to set the same global locale of laravel which is :

config('app.locale')

to work with Carbon.

It seems like you can do it by using either :

Carbon::setLocale('fr')

or

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'theLocale');

So I have tried using middleware or providers but was not successful.

(why is this not a default feature of laravel?)

Answer 1

I configured it in the AppServiceProvider.

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    public function boot()
    {
        // Localization Carbon

        \Carbon\Carbon::setLocale(config('app.locale'));
    }
}

Answer 2

So this is my bad, Carbon is actually using the php

setlocale();

the

Carbon::setLocale('fr')

method is only for the

->diffForHumans()

method. Notice that the php setlocale() reference to the locale stored on your OS to choose one of the installed one use

locale -a

on your console

secondly, you have to use

->formatLocalized()

method instead of

->format()

method

and lastly all the usefull methods like

->toDateString()
->toFormattedDateString()
->toTimeString()
->toDateTimeString()
->toDayDateTimeString()

are not being localized

and lastly you have to use these parsing letters

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php