# Pre-1.9 versions of Ruby have a bug with marshaling Time instances, where utc instances are # unmarshaled in the local zone, instead of utc. We're layering behavior on the _dump and _load # methods so that utc instances can be flagged on dump, and coerced back to utc on load. if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9' class Time class << self alias_method :_original_load, :_load def _load(marshaled_time) time = _original_load(marshaled_time) utc = time.instance_variable_get('@marshal_with_utc_coercion') utc ? time.utc : time end end alias_method :_original_dump, :_dump def _dump(*args) obj = frozen? ? dup : self obj.instance_variable_set('@marshal_with_utc_coercion', utc?) obj._original_dump(*args) end end end