How to test with specific time in Laravel

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Hello friends. Sometimes you need to run tests that rely on specific time in the past or in the future. There is a useful trick to fake time for that purpose. Just set fake timestamps using now() helper or Carbon class. Here is the example:

// Fake current time
Carbon::setTestNow($timestamp);
now()->setTestNow($timestamp);

// Reset faked time
Carbon::setTestNow();
now()->setTestNow();

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