Laravel - How to resolve special Date issue from External API - laravel

Question

In my Laravel-5.8 project, I am having this model: Employee
Employee
class Employee extends Model
{
protected $table = 'employees';
protected $primaryKey = 'id';
protected $fillable = [
'staff_code',
'first_name',
'last_name',
'date_of_birth',
];
}
That is,:
App\Employee
CREATE TABLE `employees` (
`id` int NOT NULL auto_increment,
`staff_code` varchar(255) UNIQUE NOT NULL,
`first_name` varchar(255) UNIQUE NOT NULL,
`last_name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`date_of_birth` date NOT NULL
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
Also I have an external api that comes in form of JSON get request.
https://api.employees.net/allemployees
I have viewed it with postman get request and I have something like this:
{
"ID": "1",
"StaffCode": "STC001",
"FirstName": "Japheth",
"LastName": "Shalom",
"DateOfBirth": "1992-07-11T00:00:00",
},
{
"ID": "2",
"StaffCode": "STC002",
"FirstName": "Ahitophel",
"last_name": "Nedum",
"DateOfBirth": "1991-10-23T00:00:00",
},
{
"ID": "3",
"StaffCode": "STC003",
"FirstName": "Joash",
"FirstName": "Nathan",
"DateOfBirth": "1979-09-22T00:00:00",
},
and so on... this continues
Already I have created this function:
use App\Employee;
public function index()
{
$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();
$res = $client->request('GET','https://api.employees.net/allemployees');
$clientdatas = json_decode($res->getBody()->getContents(), true);
foreach($clientdatas as $clientdata)
{
$employee = Employee::firstOrNew(['id' => $clientdata['ID']]);
$employee->staff_code = $clientdata['StaffCode'];
$employee->first_name = $clientdata['FirstName'];
$employee->last_name = $clientdata['LastName'];
$employee->date_of_birth = $clientdata['DateOfBirth'];
$employee->save();
}
}
The DateOfBirth that is coming from the external API is carrying a special character (T) along with it. And the data type for date_of_birth in the database is date.
I want to save the data from the external API into the local database.
How do I format DateOfBirth from the API into date data type and remove T00:00:00 from it?
Thank you

Answer 1

Just take what you need from that string:
$employee->date_of_birth = substr($clientdata['DateOfBirth'], 0,10);