So, if you’re displaying something like posts or tasks on your site and you want to know how long ago they were created, then you’ll probably be pulling back the created_at date with something like this:

{{ $task->created_at }}

and it comes out on your page looking like this:

2019-09-11 10:26:21

If you’d prefer to show something more user-friendly then use Carbon (which is already in Laravel):

{{ $task->created_at->diffForHumans() }}

and instead you’ll get:

1 week ago

For more information about all the wonderful things you can do with Carbon, go here: Carbon.