Rails DateTime.now without time

Question

I need to use DateTime.now to capture the current date and “cancel” the time.

For example, this shows what I do not want: DateTime.now => Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:54:13 UTC +00:00

This shows what I want: DateTime.now.some_operation => 2011-11-06 00:00:00 UTC

Answer 1

Try DateTime.now.to_date or DateTime.now.beginning_of_day

Answer 2

You need the strftime function:

 Time.now.strftime("%Y-%d-%m %H:%M:%S %Z") 

Answer 3

What about Date.today.to_time ?

Answer 4

If you are satisfied with require 'active_support/core_ext' , you can use

 DateTime.now.midnight # => Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800 

Answer 5

If you want today's date without time, just use Date.today

Answer 6

You can use only:

 Date.current 

Answer 7

Figured it out. It works:

 DateTime.now.in_time_zone.midnight