From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-05-16T21:38:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in Marshal?

Hi,

In message "Re: Bug in Marshal?"
    on 04/05/16, Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org> writes:

|In article <1084509554.595111.510.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp>,
|  matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
|
|> 1.9 will preserve this information in the near future.
|>
|> 							matz.
|> --- time.c	30 Apr 2004 11:10:02 -0000	1.100
|> +++ time.c	14 May 2004 04:38:36 -0000
|> @@ -1904,3 +1904,4 @@ time_mdump(time)
|>      p = 0x1          << 31 | /*  1 */
|> -	tm->tm_year  << 14 | /* 17 */
|> +	tobj->gmt    << 30 | /*  1 */
|> +	tm->tm_year  << 14 | /* 16 */
|>  	tm->tm_mon   << 10 | /*  4 */
|
|I found that this change causes Marshal.load error if GMT time is sent
|from 1.9 to 1.8.1.

1.8.2 has fix to ignore this bit.

|Why don't you use the bit 31, which is previously filled by 1 ?

In that case, we would loose 1.6 compatibility.

							matz.