Time and date retrieving and formatting is easy in PHP.

All of the bold text was actually printed onto the screen using PHP rather than markup, such as HTML. In all programming languages, you can also return the number of days from a certain date. This can be fun and very useful in the case of special events among other things.

This is all being calculated based on the given date, year, or time that was generated by your computer. It can be set to use a default timezone or retrieve the timezone based on your location if functionality, and obviously security, is built in.

With Laravel, programming code can be further minimized and organized by processing all this retrieving and formatting within classes and functions and passing only the variable to this page, which is the View. Directly from a Controller, this View is fed the data.

In addition to standard PHP, Laravel is a framework that boasts MVC (Model-View-Controller), which is a very long topic on its own, it also has its own template language: Blade. This makes it easy to reference the variables in very little code and more readability so long as those variables and/or data are passed to the View appropriately.