How to show current year in view?

Is there a function I can use to show the current year in a view? I have tried

<%= Time.now  %>

to try and show the time but this does not work for me.

Solution 1:

<%= Time.current.year %>

http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ruby/datesandtimes.html

Solution 2:

I'd rather use Date class to get year than Time class (if you only need the Date, you don't need to consider hours, minutes and seconds).

<%= Date.today.year %>

c.f. http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.1.0/libdoc/date/rdoc/Date.html#method-c-today

Solution 3:

I think the best way to get the current year considering application timezone is:

Date.current.year