Carbon's formatLocalized not working on production server - php

Question

The following function present in app/Helpers/helpers.php returns me the short month on my local machine. However, I deployed it to the server and it is always returning the month in English.
function dateFormatShortDateLang($date) {
setlocale(LC_TIME, app()->getLocale());
\Carbon\Carbon::setLocale(app()->getLocale());
$shortMonth = ucfirst(str_replace('.', ',', \Carbon\Carbon::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $date)->formatLocalized('%b %G')));
return $shortMonth;
}
If I dd() the value of app()->getLocale() I get the correct current locale.
The whole repo has the same code, same PHP version and I run the following commands:
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:clear
composer dump autoload
My config/app.php:
<?php
return [
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application Name
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This value is the name of your application. This value is used when the
| framework needs to place the application's name in a notification or
| any other location as required by the application or its packages.
|
*/
'name' => env('APP_NAME', 'Laravel'),
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application Environment
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This value determines the "environment" your application is currently
| running in. This may determine how you prefer to configure various
| services your application utilizes. Set this in your ".env" file.
|
*/
'env' => env('APP_ENV', 'production'),
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application Debug Mode
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| When your application is in debug mode, detailed error messages with
| stack traces will be shown on every error that occurs within your
| application. If disabled, a simple generic error page is shown.
|
*/
'debug' => env('APP_DEBUG', false),
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application URL
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This URL is used by the console to properly generate URLs when using
| the Artisan command line tool. You should set this to the root of
| your application so that it is used when running Artisan tasks.
|
*/
'url' => env('APP_URL', 'http://localhost'),
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application Timezone
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may specify the default timezone for your application, which
| will be used by the PHP date and date-time functions. We have gone
| ahead and set this to a sensible default for you out of the box.
|
*/
'timezone' => 'UTC',
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application Locale Configuration
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| The application locale determines the default locale that will be used
| by the translation service provider. You are free to set this value
| to any of the locales which will be supported by the application.
|
*/
'locale' => 'es',
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application Fallback Locale
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| The fallback locale determines the locale to use when the current one
| is not available. You may change the value to correspond to any of
| the language folders that are provided through your application.
|
*/
'fallback_locale' => 'es',
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Encryption Key
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This key is used by the Illuminate encrypter service and should be set
| to a random, 32 character string, otherwise these encrypted strings
| will not be safe. Please do this before deploying an application!
|
*/
'key' => env('APP_KEY'),
'cipher' => 'AES-256-CBC',
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Logging Configuration
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may configure the log settings for your application. Out of
| the box, Laravel uses the Monolog PHP logging library. This gives
| you a variety of powerful log handlers / formatters to utilize.
|
| Available Settings: "single", "daily", "syslog", "errorlog"
|
*/
'log' => env('APP_LOG', 'single'),
'log_level' => env('APP_LOG_LEVEL', 'debug'),
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Autoloaded Service Providers
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| The service providers listed here will be automatically loaded on the
| request to your application. Feel free to add your own services to
| this array to grant expanded functionality to your applications.
|
*/
'providers' => [
/*
* Laravel Framework Service Providers...
*/
Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Broadcasting\BroadcastServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Bus\BusServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Cache\CacheServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ConsoleSupportServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Cookie\CookieServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Database\DatabaseServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Encryption\EncryptionServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Filesystem\FilesystemServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\FoundationServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Hashing\HashServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Mail\MailServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Notifications\NotificationServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Pagination\PaginationServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Pipeline\PipelineServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Queue\QueueServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Redis\RedisServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Auth\Passwords\PasswordResetServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Session\SessionServiceProvider::class,
// Illuminate\Translation\TranslationServiceProvider::class,
Spatie\TranslationLoader\TranslationServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Validation\ValidationServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\View\ViewServiceProvider::class,
/*
* Package Service Providers...
*/
/*
* Application Service Providers...
*/
App\Providers\AppServiceProvider::class,
App\Providers\AuthServiceProvider::class,
// App\Providers\BroadcastServiceProvider::class,
App\Providers\EventServiceProvider::class,
// Multilingual
App\Providers\RouteServiceProvider::class,
App\Providers\ViewComposerServiceProvider::class,
],
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Class Aliases
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This array of class aliases will be registered when this application
| is started. However, feel free to register as many as you wish as
| the aliases are "lazy" loaded so they don't hinder performance.
|
*/
'aliases' => [
'App' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\App::class,
'Artisan' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan::class,
'Auth' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth::class,
'Blade' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Blade::class,
'Broadcast' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Broadcast::class,
'Bus' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Bus::class,
'Cache' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache::class,
'Config' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Config::class,
'Cookie' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cookie::class,
'Crypt' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Crypt::class,
'DB' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB::class,
'Eloquent' => Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model::class,
'Event' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Event::class,
'File' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\File::class,
'Gate' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Gate::class,
'Hash' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash::class,
'Lang' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Lang::class,
'Log' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log::class,
'Mail' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Mail::class,
'Notification' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Notification::class,
'Password' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Password::class,
'Queue' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Queue::class,
'Redirect' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redirect::class,
'Redis' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redis::class,
'Request' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Request::class,
'Response' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Response::class,
'Route' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route::class,
'Schema' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema::class,
'Session' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Session::class,
'Storage' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage::class,
'URL' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\URL::class,
'Validator' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator::class,
'View' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\View::class,
],
];

Answer 1

formatLocalized is deprecated for this reason: it uses strftime which use locales installed on the machine and will also be removed in future PHP version. See isoFormat and Localization documentation
function dateFormatShortDateLang($date) {
Carbon::setLocale(app()->getLocale());
return Carbon::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $date)->isoFormat('MMM YYYY');
}
Also Carbon::setLocale(app()->getLocale()); shouldn't be necessary if you enabled laravel provider auto-discovery or load Carbon\Laravel\ServiceProvider which is exactly meant to synchronize Carbon locale on your Laravel app locale.