Ruby / Rails 3: How to create a Date object from a Time object?

Given a Time object, say 2011-03-12 21:58:11 +1100, I would like to get the appropriate Date object (Sat, 12 Mar 2011).

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Rails 3 extensions are welcome.

There's a to_date method for time that can be useful

Time.now.to_date

Looking at the 'Time' object documentation, you can simply use the to_date method.

date = your_time.to_date