duncan

Orbiter:dailyshoot duncan$ rails c
Loading development environment (Rails 3.0.0)

# To set up this discussion, here's the time I'm running these examples at.
# It's almost 7PM Pacific on Weds, Sept 22.

ruby-1.9.2-p0 > Time.now
 => 2010-09-22 18:56:57 -0700 

# Date.today is a Ruby core method. It does what you'd think