Rails 5 has added some nice enhancements to Active Support. This blog will go over some of those changes. Improvements in Date, Time and Datetime prev_day and next_day As the name of the methods suggests, next_day returns next calendar date. Similarly, prev_day returns previous calendar date. 1 2Time.current 3=> Fri, 12 Feb 2016 08:53:31 UTC +00:00 4 5Time.current.next_day 6=> Sat, 13 Feb 2016 08: