Date.today reports wrong date when frozen

[joshwalsh]

Today is 2013, 1, 8 but when I freeze the date for yesterday it reports the wrong date. Running ruby 1.9.3 and Timecop 0.5.8.

require 'timecop'
require 'date'

Timecop.freeze(2013,1,7) do
  puts Date.today
  puts Time.now
end

I expected to see:

2013-01-07
2013-01-07 00:00:00 -0500

But, I actually see:

2013-01-08
2013-01-07 00:00:00 -0500

Am I using this incorrectly?

[travisjeffery]

Timecop doesn't override Date#today but you can just do Time.now.to_date, e.g.

Timecop.freeze(Time.local(2013, 1, 7)) { puts Time.now.to_date } # 2013-01-07