Carbon vs ExpressiveDate

Carbon

A simple PHP API extension for DateTime. (by briannesbitt)

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ExpressiveDate

A fluent extension to PHPs DateTime class. (by jasonlewis)

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Carbon		ExpressiveDate
	Project
18	Mentions	-
16,436	Stars	255
-	Growth	-
9.3	Activity	0.0
about 6 hours ago	Latest Commit	over 7 years ago
PHP	Language	PHP
MIT License	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Carbon

Posts with mentions or reviews of Carbon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-19.

PHP: check dates
2 projects | dev.to | 19 Nov 2023

Carbon is probably one of the most popular vendors to handle dates in PHP.
Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?
37 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jun 2023
Why was the Carbon library called that?
1 project | /r/PHP | 22 Dec 2022

Official page, at the very bottom.
Calendar page displaying empty boxes and not days and numbers - $this->date
1 project | /r/PHPhelp | 30 Nov 2022

Let me start by referring you to PHP's DateTime implementation. There is a library called Carbon that uses this DateTime implementation and added almost all the methods you have (but better). So there really is no need to create your own just to be able to display Dutch names. That way to can get rid of the nasty "globals".
The Wonderful Carbon - Laravel
2 projects | dev.to | 19 Nov 2022

At first we go to https://carbon.nesbot.com/ Here we will see a lot of interesting information and go deeper into it See also https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon
Need help formatting week day and time
1 project | /r/PHPhelp | 17 Nov 2022

first of all, i think you should use Carbon library. it's available here: https://github.com/briannesbitt/carbon
Any help will be greatly appreciated
1 project | /r/PHPhelp | 29 Sep 2022
Do you use a DateTime wrapper?
5 projects | /r/PHP | 26 Mar 2022

See: https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon/issues/1693
Creating a Neat DateTime Helper Function in PHP
1 project | dev.to | 24 Mar 2022

Working with datetime in PHP could be a real pain if you don't take advantage of popular libraries like Carbon. It's all good until you have to convert dates provided on user input into another timezone (eg. UTC) and vice versa. Other example could be that you have to manage various input datetime formats, and sanitize them into a consistent one before saving it to database.
Carbon - Float Difference in Months Filtered
1 project | /r/laravel | 10 Mar 2022

Be careful of floatDiffInMonths() which can gives you a lower result (number of months in A < number of months in B) for an interval having more days (number of days in A > number of days in B) due to the variable number of days in months (especially February). By default, we rely on the result of DateTime::diff which is sensitive to overflow. See issue #2264 for alternative calculations.