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# Carbon
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A simple PHP API extension for DateTime. [http://carbon.nesbot.com ](http://carbon.nesbot.com )
```php
use Carbon\Carbon;
printf("Right now is %s", Carbon::now()->toDateTimeString());
printf("Right now in Vancouver is %s", Carbon::now('America/Vancouver')); //implicit __toString()
$tomorrow = Carbon::now()->addDay();
$lastWeek = Carbon::now()->subWeek();
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$nextSummerOlympics = Carbon::createFromDate(2016)->addYears(4);
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$officialDate = Carbon::now()->toRfc2822String();
$howOldAmI = Carbon::createFromDate(1975, 5, 21)->age;
$noonTodayLondonTime = Carbon::createFromTime(12, 0, 0, 'Europe/London');
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$internetWillBlowUpOn = Carbon::create(2038, 01, 19, 3, 14, 7, 'GMT');
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// Don't really want this to happen so mock now
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Carbon::setTestNow(Carbon::createFromDate(2000, 1, 1));
// comparisons are always done in UTC
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if (Carbon::now()->gte($internetWillBlowUpOn)) {
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die();
}
// Phew! Return to normal behaviour
Carbon::setTestNow();
if (Carbon::now()->isWeekend()) {
echo 'Party!';
}
echo Carbon::now()->subMinutes(2)->diffForHumans(); // '2 minutes ago'
// ... but also does 'from now', 'after' and 'before'
// rolling up to seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years
$daysSinceEpoch = Carbon::createFromTimestamp(0)->diffInDays();
```
## Installation
### With Composer
```
$ composer require nesbot/carbon
```
```json
{
"require": {
"nesbot/carbon": "~1.21"
}
}
```
```php
< ?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Carbon\Carbon;
printf("Now: %s", Carbon::now());
```
< a name = "install-nocomposer" / >
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### Without Composer
Why are you not using [composer ](http://getcomposer.org/ )? Download [Carbon.php ](https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon/blob/master/src/Carbon/Carbon.php ) from the repo and save the file into your project path somewhere.
```php
< ?php
require 'path/to/Carbon.php';
use Carbon\Carbon;
printf("Now: %s", Carbon::now());
```
## Docs
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[http://carbon.nesbot.com/docs ](http://carbon.nesbot.com/docs )