# Time.today? **URL:** \ **Category:** rubyonrails-talk\ **Created:** [August 29, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/time-today/45593 "2009-08-29T00:10:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pharrington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@pharrington](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/pharrington)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/time-today/45593/1 "2009-08-29T00:10:11Z")
Whats are the respective Ruby versions? Time.today exists on 1.8.7, but not 1.9.1 (or 1.8.6 to my knowledge) ---
**Author:** ![Kieran1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/46a35a/32.png) [@Kieran1](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Kieran1)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/time-today/45593/2 "2009-08-30T19:58:40Z")
You can do something like this (utilizing a Rails time method): class Time   def self.today     Time.now.beginning\_of\_day   end end > > Time.today =\> Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 +1200 2009 Regards Kieran ---
**Author:** ![Mauricio\_Linhares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mauricio\_Linhares](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Mauricio_Linhares)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/time-today/45593/3 "2009-08-30T20:00:45Z")
Time has no today method, today is a Date method added by rails, as in Date.today. The method that looks like the same in time is Time.now. ---
**Author:** ![bitsweat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/rubyonrails/user_avatar/discuss.rubyonrails.org/bitsweat/32/591_2.png) [@bitsweat](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/bitsweat)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/time-today/45593/4 "2009-08-30T20:43:30Z")
Date.today is part of Ruby standard library (not added by Rails). jeremy ---
**Author:** ![Con](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Con](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Con)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/time-today/45593/5 "2009-08-30T20:57:01Z")
Hi, here’s my results for the various Ruby implementations: Ruby 1.8.6: > > Time.now =\> Sun Aug 30 13:49:32 -0700 2009 > > Time.today NoMethodError: undefined method `today’ for Time:Class ``` from (irb):2 ``` > > Date.today =\> Sun, 30 Aug 2009 > > quit Ruby 1.8.7: > > Time.now =\> 2009-08-30 13:51:31 -0700 > > Time.today NoMethodError: undefined method `today’ for Time:Class ``` from (irb):2 from /opt/local/bin/irb:12:in `
' ``` > > quit Ruby 1.9.1: > > Time.now =\> 2009-08-30 13:54:31 -0700 > > Time.today NoMethodError: undefined method `today’ for Time:Class ``` from (irb):2 from /opt/local/bin/irb:12:in `
' ``` > > quit Good luck, -Conrad ---
**Author:** ![pharrington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@pharrington](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/pharrington)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/time-today/45593/6 "2009-08-30T21:08:23Z")
What does the RUBY\_VERSION say? It looks like you accidentally ran the wrong IRB when testing this out, as your Ruby "1.8.7" and 1.9.1 are both the same executable (/opt/ local/bin/irb). But Keiran's suggestion isn't bad, might want to work a method\_defined? in with that though. ---
**Author:** ![Con](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Con](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Con)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/time-today/45593/7 "2009-08-30T21:11:40Z")
Hi, it’s actually two different machines. -Conrad ---
**Author:** ![pharrington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@pharrington](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/pharrington)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/time-today/45593/8 "2009-08-30T21:16:03Z")
> \> Hi, here's my results for the various Ruby implementations: > > \> Ruby 1.8.6: > > \> \>\> Time.now > > \> =\> Sun Aug 30 13:49:32 -0700 2009\>\> Time.today > > \> NoMethodError: undefined method `today' for Time:Class \> from (irb):2\>\> Date.today > > \> =\> Sun, 30 Aug 2009 > > \> \>\> quit > > \> Ruby 1.8.7: > > \> \>\> Time.now > > \> =\> 2009-08-30 13:51:31 -0700\>\> Time.today > > \> NoMethodError: undefined method `today' for Time:Class \> from (irb):2 \> from /opt/local/bin/irb:12:in `\' > > \> \>\> quit > > \> Ruby 1.9.1: > > \> \>\> Time.now > > \> =\> 2009-08-30 13:54:31 -0700\>\> Time.today > > \> NoMethodError: undefined method `today' for Time:Class \> from (irb):2 \> from /opt/local/bin/irb:12:in `\' > > \> \>\> quit > > \> Good luck, > > \> -Conrad > > What does the RUBY\_VERSION say? > > It looks like you accidentally ran the wrong IRB when testing this out, as your Ruby "1.8.7" and 1.9.1 are both the same executable (/opt/ local/bin/irb). > > But Keiran's suggestion isn't bad, might want to work a method\_defined? in with that though. And this is me speaking apparently too soon irb(main):006:0\> RUBY\_VERSION =\> "1.8.7" irb(main):007:0\> Time.today NoMethodError: undefined method `today' for Time:Class         from (irb):7 irb(main):008:0\> > > RUBY\_VERSION =\> "1.8.7" > > Time.today =\> Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0400 2009 > > So a gem must be adding this somewhere, I'm too lazy to look where right now though ---
**Author:** ![pharrington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@pharrington](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/pharrington)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/time-today/45593/9 "2009-08-30T21:32:52Z")
As someone told me before, I need to Google more :\