Laravel diffForHumans() how to set it up correctly?

Question

PHP

Hello!
On the site I get the date from the database in the following format: 2019-08-22 22:38:31 I
use Carbon in Laravel to get the date in this format: 2 hours ago / 1 seconds ago / 2 days ago, etc.
- To do this, according to the documentation , I display the date in this way:
$myData->created_at->diffForHumans();
Result: in 4 hours
But it should be displayed in the elapsed time, such as N hours ago
Where did I go wrong? :)

Answer 1

There is a discussion on stackoverflow that diffForHumans may not work correctly with raw date, try this:

$carbondate = Carbon::parse($myData->created_at); 
$past = $carbondate->diffForHumans();