It isn't an issue with Laravel, it is an issue with PDO, which Laravel uses for making database queries.

For more info see this other question: PHP How to return datetime(6) from Mysql?

or the actual bug report

http://grokbase.com/t/php/php-bugs/11524dvh68/php-bug-bug-54648-new-pdo-forces-format-of-datetime-fields

You can pull microseconds by using a DB::select() statement. For example:

$test = DB::select("SELECT id, DATE_FORMAT(date, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%f') as date FROM test");

It isn't an issue with Laravel, it is an issue with PDO, which Laravel uses for making database queries.

For more info see this other question: PHP How to return datetime(6) from Mysql?

or the actual bug report

http://grokbase.com/t/php/php-bugs/11524dvh68/php-bug-bug-54648-new-pdo-forces-format-of-datetime-fields

You can pull microseconds by using a DB::select() statement. For example:

$test = DB::select("SELECT id, DATE_FORMAT(date, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%i:%f') as date FROM test");