Bug #3035: Time#zone doesn't round-trip

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: 1.9.2
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-03-14) [x86_64-darwin10.2.0]

[bitsweat (Jeremy Daer)]

=begin

Time.now.zone
=> "PDT"
Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(Time.now)).zone
=> nil
=end

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

=begin
It's intended.
Time#utc_offset does round-trip but not #zone.
=end

[bitsweat (Jeremy Daer)]

=begin
Ok. I found a good explanation in this thread: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/22892

I think it would be more pragmatic to include the zone name and fall back to utc_offset. Lossy marshaling is surprising.
=end