Question

They both seem to do the same thing. I’m just worried that one uses timezones differently to the other.

Answer 1

See Rails code, line 40 here.

# Returns Time.zone.today when <tt>Time.zone</tt> or <tt>config.time_zone</tt> are     set, otherwise just returns Date.today.
  def current
    ::Time.zone ? ::Time.zone.today : ::Date.today
  end

So If you defined a timezone, you’ll get a zoned Date otherwise you’ll get Date.today.

BTW there is no Date.now