Method: Time.now

Defined in:
time.c

.now ⇒ Time

Creates a new Time object for the current time. This is same as Time.new without arguments.

Time.now            #=> 2009-06-24 12:39:54 +0900

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# File 'time.c', line 2752

static VALUE
time_s_now(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE klass)
{
    VALUE vals[TMOPT_MAX_], opts, t, zone = Qundef;
    rb_scan_args(argc, argv, ":", &opts);
    if (get_tmopt(opts, vals)) zone = vals[TMOPT_IN];
    t = rb_class_new_instance(0, NULL, klass);
    if (zone != Qundef) {
        time_zonelocal(t, zone);
    }
    return t;
}