title: PHP Carbon Check If Chosen Date is Greater than Other Date
body: <p>I've started using PHP Carbon for my application since it seems so much easier than using and manipulating date/time with the DateTime class. What I want to do is check if the chosen date ($chosen_date) is greater than another date ($whitelist_date). I have tried this in the code below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    $chosen_date = new Carbon($chosen_date);
  
      $whitelist_date = Carbon::now('Europe/London');
      $whitelist_date-&gt;addMinutes(10);
  
      echo "Chosen date must be after this date: ".$whitelist_date ."&lt;/br&gt;";
      echo "Chosen Date: ".$chosen_date ."&lt;/br&gt;";
  
      if ($chosen_date-&gt;gt($whitelist_date)) {
  
          echo "proceed"; 
      } else {
          echo "dont proceed";
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The original $chosen_date value comes from POST data. Here is the output I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Chosen date must be after this date: 2015-09-22 21:21:57
  Chosen Date: 2015-09-22 21:01:00
  proceed
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Clearly the chosen date is not greater than the whitelist date but still the if statement returns true and echo's "proceed". I have been over the code over and over but I can't see where I have gone wrong. </p>