Is Time.zone.now.to_date equivalent to Date.today?

Question

Is Time.zone.now.to_date equivalent to Date.today?

Another way to put it: will Time.zone.now.to_date == Date.today always be <

Answer 1

Even easier: Time.zone.today

I also wrote a little helper method Date.today_in_zone that makes it really easy to get a "today" Date for a specific time zone without having to change Time.zone:

 # Defaults to using Time.zone
 > Date.today_in_zone
=> Fri, 26 Oct 2012

 # Or specify a zone to use
 > Date.today_in_zone('Sydney')
=> Sat, 27 Oct 2012

To use it, just throw this in a file like 'lib/date_extensions.rb' and require 'date_extensions'.

class Date
  def self.today_in_zone(zone = ::Time.zone)
    ::Time.find_zone!(zone).today
  end
end