Issue #8101 has been reported by headius (Charles Nutter). ---------------------------------------- Backport #8101: Backport fix for time.send(:initialize) reinitializing and modifying value https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8101 Author: headius (Charles Nutter) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: I filed https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8099 to get Time to prevent reinitialization, and nobu fixed it in r39766. I am requesting that it be backported to 1.9.3 along with tests I will be adding shortly. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/