rubygems/rubygems — Issue #266: Older YAML gemspecs have a Date instead of a Time for Spec#date
Author: drbrain
Created: 2012-01-21 02:45:40+00:00
State: open
Labels: category - command, status - accepted, type - bug

When running `gem generate_index` on old gems like diff-lcs-1.1.2 the Date in the YAML gemspec is not converted to a Time.

If `gem generate_index` was run from ruby 1.8 then the gem will not be installable on ruby 1.9 since the Marshal format of Date was changed and vice versa.