Laravel Utils

convertToCarbonInstance.php

 /**
 * Convert one simple date in Carbon instance object
 * @param $date
 * @param string $delimiter
 * @return Carbon
 */
public static function convertToCarbonInstance($date, $delimiter = '-')
{
    $sp_date = explode($delimiter, $date);
    return Carbon::parse($sp_date[2] . '-' . $sp_date[1] . '-' . $sp_date[0]);
}