Laravel Carbon throws error The format separator does not match

php laravel date datetime laravel-5

PHP Snippet 1:

date("D d M", strtotime("2017-02-09 18:30:00"));
//outputs "Thu 09 Feb"

date("D d M", strtotime($matchArr['matchTime']);

PHP Snippet 2:

date('l j F', strtotime($matchArr['matchTime']))

PHP Snippet 3:

Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H:i:s', '2017-02-09 18:30:00');