Rails 3: How to get today's date in specific timezone?

Question

To get today\'s date I do:

Date.today    # => Fri, 20 May 2011

I would like to get today\'s date in a specific timezone, say \'Melbour

Answer 1

Date objects don't necessarily have timezones, but Time objects do. You can try it as a Time, then convert back to a Date:

Time.now.to_date
# => Thu, 19 May 2011 
Time.now.in_time_zone('Melbourne').to_date
# => Fri, 20 May 2011