Get start of day on db holiday - (Carbon, Laravel) - php

Question

So I have the following code:
use Carbon\ Carbon;
use Carbon\ CarbonPeriod;
use App\ Models\ Holiday;
// grab holidays of current year
$holidays = app('yasumi');
$holidaysArray = $holidays - > getHolidayDates();
$eventRepeats = $event - > repeats;
foreach($holidays - > getHolidayDates() as $date) {
echo '<br>';
echo $date.PHP_EOL;
echo '<br><br>';
}
// make Carbon out of event times
$eventStart = Carbon::parse($event - > start);
$eventEnd = Carbon::parse($event - > end);
// get custom holidays
$companyHolidays = Holiday::query() - > get() - > toArray();
$customholidayArray = [];
foreach($companyHolidays as $holiday) {
$parsedCompanyHolidays = CarbonPeriod::create($holiday['start'], $holiday['end']) - > toArray();
foreach($parsedCompanyHolidays as $parsedHoliday) {
$customholidayArray[] = $parsedHoliday - > translatedFormat('Y-m-d');
}
}
the issue is on the CarbonPeriod::create($holiday['start']. It is Y-m-d but I need it to also have the start of the day 00:00:00 and on the end I need 23:59:59
I use this data to skip dates in a while loop. The current solution is not working correctly and is one day behind, because of the missing hour, minute and second.
Here is the loop:
while ($i < $eventRepeats) {
// add one week
$eventStart - > addDays(7);
if (in_array($eventStart - > translatedFormat('Y-m-d'), $holidaysArray)) {
continue;
}
}
EDIT, might have found root cause, but no solution:
If I dd($companyHolidays); it shows like this "start" => "2023-02-19T23:00:00.000000Z"
even though the date is stored in the DB like this 2023-02-20.
How could this be fixed, I cannot find good documentation on this?

Answer 1

With the help from #Win I was able to fix this issue.
All I needed to change was the protected $casts in my Model from:
protected $casts = [
'start' => 'date',
'end' => 'date',
];
to:
protected $casts = [
'start' => 'datetime:Y-m-d',
'end' => 'datetime:Y-m-d'
];
More info about this issue can be found here:
https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/eloquent-mutators#date-casting