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Time.now vs Time.new in Ruby

Is there any difference between Time.now

and Time.new

(no parameters)? Maybe there is a difference in memory management or some small details?

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now

is an alias for new

. There is no difference between them. Jeff's price will get the answer (and his answer is also correct, please vote up his answer if you like it) first, because I wrote and ran this test:

Ruby 2.1.2 (MRI):

Rehearsal ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time.new                                   0.670000   0.000000   0.670000 (  0.679709)
Time.now                                   0.880000   0.010000   0.890000 (  0.881899)
------------------------------------------------------------------- total: 1.560000sec

                                               user     system      total        real
Time.new                                   0.720000   0.000000   0.720000 (  0.719453)
Time.now                                   0.740000   0.010000   0.750000 (  0.742711)

Rehearsal ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time.new                                   0.810000   0.000000   0.810000 (  0.811874)
Time.now                                   0.830000   0.000000   0.830000 (  0.831346)
------------------------------------------------------------------- total: 1.640000sec

                                               user     system      total        real
Time.new                                   0.790000   0.010000   0.800000 (  0.800082)
Time.now                                   0.740000   0.000000   0.740000 (  0.749995)

Rehearsal ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time.new                                   0.680000   0.010000   0.690000 (  0.690337)
Time.now                                   0.850000   0.000000   0.850000 (  0.856800)
------------------------------------------------------------------- total: 1.540000sec

                                               user     system      total        real
Time.new                                   0.790000   0.010000   0.800000 (  0.792666)
Time.now                                   0.770000   0.000000   0.770000 (  0.777414)

Rehearsal ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time.new                                   0.590000   0.010000   0.600000 (  0.594650)
Time.now                                   0.710000   0.010000   0.720000 (  0.717067)
------------------------------------------------------------------- total: 1.320000sec

                                               user     system      total        real
Time.new                                   0.870000   0.000000   0.870000 (  0.872646)
Time.now                                   0.680000   0.010000   0.690000 (  0.687092)

Rehearsal ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Time.new                                   0.780000   0.010000   0.790000 (  0.786419)
Time.now                                   0.780000   0.000000   0.780000 (  0.789049)
------------------------------------------------------------------- total: 1.570000sec

                                               user     system      total        real
Time.new                                   0.760000   0.010000   0.770000 (  0.768194)
Time.now                                   0.790000   0.010000   0.800000 (  0.790981)


Run the test yourself:

n = 1000000

5.times do 
  Benchmark.bmbm(40) do |x|
    x.report("Time.new"){ n.times { Time.new } }
    x.report("Time.now"){ n.times { Time.now } }
  end
end
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There is no difference.

Time.now is an alias for :: new. Returns a time object initialized with the current system time.



http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.4/Time.html#method-c-now

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