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lee/carbon-extended
===================

A extended date time format helper for Carbon

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carbon-extended
===============

[](#carbon-extended)

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Introduction
------------

[](#introduction)

- It can use some extended format on `Carbon::format` method

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Using the `composer` to install this package

```
composer require lee/carbon-extended:^1.0
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

- The `CarbonExtended` class extends `Carbon` and it can use `createFromFormat` to create the `Carbon` class instance and do format with extended foramts.

```
use Lee\CarbonExtended;

$date = '2013-03-17';
$customizedFormat = 'QTR.';

$carbonExtended = CarbonExtended::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', $date);
$result = $carbonExtended->extendedFormat($customizedFormat); // 1
```

Available extended date formats
-------------------------------

[](#available-extended-date-formats)

- The customized format name is refer on SAS date format
- Here are available extended formats: (it will have more customized formats...)

customized format namereferencesQTR.[QTR. reference](https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=leforinforref&docsetTarget=n0mupey76zmd4sn15y96a03lrumz.htm&docsetVersion=1.0&locale=en)QTRR.[QTRR. reference](https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=leforinforref&docsetTarget=p1tme300o05i9gn1lj4b25uxln45.htm&docsetVersion=3.2&locale=en)JULDAY3.[JULDAY3. reference](https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=leforinforref&docsetTarget=p0rzo1ok9zk0x4n1oz50uf9a5jle.htm&docsetVersion=1.0&locale=en)SAS\_DATE\_VALUE[SAS\_DATE\_VALUE reference](https://v8doc.sas.com/sashtml/lrcon/zenid-63.htm)JULIAN5.[JULIAN5. reference](https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=leforinforref&docsetTarget=p0f7u4z8iuaoygn183i6q1yc49xb.htm&docsetVersion=3.1&locale=en)JULIAN7.[JULIAN7. reference](https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=leforinforref&docsetTarget=p0f7u4z8iuaoygn183i6q1yc49xb.htm&docsetVersion=3.1&locale=en)PDJULG4.[PDJULG4. reference](https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=leforinforref&docsetTarget=n1gtaebcye6hpan1g6lcq2bj6580.htm&docsetVersion=1.0&locale=en)TIMEAMPM.[TIMEAMPM. reference](https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=ds2ref&docsetTarget=n0cvz66cg3fw2xn1uhrmwa6xmbb8.htm&docsetVersion=3.1&locale=en)References
----------

[](#references)

[SAS date documentation](https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=lrcon&docsetTarget=p1wj0wt2ebe2a0n1lv4lem9hdc0v.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en#n1franwnd7n7yrn1kasbprbtzroo)

###  Health Score

19

—

LowBetter than 10% of packages

Maintenance0

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity51

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

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

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2276d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/baa74b27c760b02871b04908382ae01967e7d7100c20144c71197cd680b99c98?d=identicon)[peter279k](/maintainers/peter279k)

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Top Contributors

[![peter279k](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9021747?v=4)](https://github.com/peter279k "peter279k (4 commits)")

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Tags

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###  Code Quality

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