Time.zone.now.to_fs(:symbol)
Time.zone.now.to_formatted_s(:symbol)

pre-Rails 7

Time.zone.now.to_s(:symbol)

date

:symbol

time

2007-11-10

:db

2007-01-18 12:34:56

20071110

:number

20070118123456

 

:time

12:34

10 Nov

:short

18 Jan 12:34

November 10, 2007

:long

January 18, 2007 06:10

November 10th, 2007

:long_ordinal

January 18th, 2007 06:10

10 Nov 2007

:rfc822

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:10:17 -0600

2007-11-10

:iso8601

2007-01-18T06:10:17-06:00

date source

 

time source

This code paraphrases the #to_formatted_s docs.