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healthengine/laravel-chronos
============================

Swap out Carbon for Chronos

v4.0.1(2y ago)3218.3k11MITPHPPHP ~8.1.0 || ~8.2.0 || ~8.3.0

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Warning

This repository is archived. Use immutable date casts in [laravel/framework](https://github.com/laravel/framework) instead.

Laravel Chronos
===============

[](#laravel-chronos)

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This is a custom package designed for Laravel Eloquent. It provides a trait that can be used in model classes that will cast datetime fields to ChronosInterface instead of Carbon instances.

Chronos is a drop-in replacement for Carbon but is immutable by default. It also provides an interface that can be used for some genericising as well.

See the [Chronos documentation](https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/chronos.html) for more information.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Warning

This package is not compatible with Laravel's attribute casts: immutable\_date, immutable\_datetime.

To convert datetime casts from Carbon instances to Chronos instances in an Eloquent model, all you need to do is `use`this trait in the model. An example is shown below:

```
use HealthEngine\LaravelChronos\ChronosTimestamps;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use ChronosTimestamps;

    protected $casts = [
        // Throws error: "Call to undefined method Cake\Chronos\Chronos::toImmutable()"
        // 'processed_at' => 'immutable_date',
        // Throws error: "Call to undefined method Cake\Chronos\Chronos::toImmutable()"
        // 'processed_at' => 'immutable_datetime',
        'processed_at' => 'datetime',
    ];
}
```

License
-------

[](#license)

Laravel Chronos is licensed under the MIT license.

###  Health Score

42

—

FairBetter than 88% of packages

Maintenance27

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity29

Limited adoption so far

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity80

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 61.5% of commits — single point of failure

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**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

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###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~504 days

Total

5

Last Release

734d ago

Major Versions

1.0.0 → 2.0.02018-12-20

2.0.0 → v3.0.02022-11-18

v3.0.0 → v4.0.02023-09-13

PHP version history (3 changes)v3.0.0PHP ~7.4.0 || ~8.0.0 || ~8.1.0

v4.0.0PHP ~8.1.0 || ~8.2.0

v4.0.1PHP ~8.1.0 || ~8.2.0 || ~8.3.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/15922667?v=4)[Thomas Spencer](/maintainers/tspencer244)[@tspencer244](https://github.com/tspencer244)

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6128798?v=4)[Jarryd Tilbrook](/maintainers/jradtilbrook)[@jradtilbrook](https://github.com/jradtilbrook)

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