If you want to have a current date without seconds and/or minutes, use Carbon's methods like setSeconds(0)
or setMinutes(0)
.
1// 2020-04-20 08:12:34 2echo now(); 3 4// 2020-04-20 08:12:00 5echo now()->setSeconds(0); 6 7// 2020-04-20 08:00:00 8echo now()->setSeconds(0)->setMinutes(0); 9 10// Another way - even shorter11echo now()->startOfHour();