title: Laravel parse date and get difference in minutes
body: <p>Hi I am trying to get the minutes difference it always return a positive integer is there a way in which we can get the integer value. here is the code that i have tried so for</p>
  
  <pre><code>      $connections = ChatConnection::all();
  
      foreach ($connections as $con) {
          $monthdate = Carbon::parse($con-&gt;last_connected_at)-&gt;addMinute(5);
          $dateDiff = Carbon::now()-&gt;diffInMinutes($monthdate);
  
          $this-&gt;info($dateDiff);
  
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><code>$this-&gt;info($dateDiff);</code> this return a positive integer always.</p>
  
  <p>I have to check the column send push notification if message connection is 5 minutes old.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a nice way?</p>