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Quick Tip

Immutable dates and casting to them

Laravel 8.53 introduces the immutable_date and immutable_datetime castes that convert dates to Immutable.

Cast to CarbonImmutable instead of a regular Carbon instance.

class User extends Model
{
public $casts = [
'date_field' => 'immutable_date',
'datetime_field' => 'immutable_datetime',
];
}

Tip given by @PascalBaljet

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