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rtuin/carbon-normalizer
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Normalizes to (and from) Carbon and native DateTime objects

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Carbon+DateTime Normalizer
==========================

[](#carbondatetime-normalizer)

This is a Normalizer for the Symfony Serializer package that supports normalizing to and from `Carbon`, `CarbonImmutable`, `Illuminate\Support\Carbon`, `DateTime` and `DateTimeImmutable`.

Usage example
-------------

[](#usage-example)

```
$normalizer = new \Rtuin\Normalizer\CarbonDateTimeNormalizer();

$normalized = $normalizer->normalize(\Carbon\CarbonImmutable::now());
// $normalized is now a string '2019-05-28T07:25:00+02:00'

$result = $normalizer->denormalize('2019-05-28T07:25:00+02:00', CarbonImmutable::class);
// $result is now a CarbonImmutable instance
```

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE) for more information.

###  Health Score

28

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LowBetter than 52% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity29

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity43

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

Every ~175 days

Total

4

Last Release

1148d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/360150?v=4)[Richard Tuin](/maintainers/rtuin)[@rtuin](https://github.com/rtuin)

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Top Contributors

[![rtuin](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/360150?v=4)](https://github.com/rtuin "rtuin (8 commits)")

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Tags

carboncomponentjsonphpserializersymfonysymfony-componentnormalizersymfonyserializercarbon

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