Rails - Sep 2011 - New date format in gemspec breaks older rubygems version

I forget why but I''m stuck using rubygems 1.7.2, which means I
occasionally get the dreaded "invalid date format in specification"
error message

What sets the date format?

For example.  with rubygems-bundler

Invalid gemspec in [/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ree-1.8.7-2011.03/lib/ruby/
gems/1.8/specifications/rubygems-bundler-0.2.6.gemspec]: invalid date
format in specification: "2011-09-16 00:00:00.000000000Z"

If you look on github the date is 2011-09-16.  no time information is
added
https://github.com/mpapis/rubygems-bundler/blob/master/rubygems-bundler.gemspec

So what adds the 00:00:00.000000000Z?   Is it part of the rubygems
push process?

This gem supports older versions of rubygems but once it is uploaded
to rubygems.org it will only work on 1.8.x  :-\

Thanks for any pointers.
Tony

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FYI..   The Gem author fixed this issue by rebuilding the Gem with
1.8.7.   He mentioned something about the YAML version.   I guess I
should learn about the Gem deploy process to better understand what
the root cause of the issue was.

The fix
https://github.com/mpapis/rubygems-bundler/commit/ead8ec8d57331b6b750d1622e5b683763b92fd73#diff-1

The ticket
https://github.com/mpapis/rubygems-bundler/issues/6

On Sep 20, 1:00 pm, Tony Primerano
<tony.primer...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I forget why but I''m stuck using rubygems 1.7.2, which means I
> occasionally get the dreaded "invalid date format in
specification"
> error message
>
> What sets the date format?
>
> For example.  with rubygems-bundler
>
> Invalid gemspec in [/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ree-1.8.7-2011.03/lib/ruby/
> gems/1.8/specifications/rubygems-bundler-0.2.6.gemspec]: invalid date
> format in specification: "2011-09-16 00:00:00.000000000Z"
>
> If you look on github the date is 2011-09-16.  no time information is
>
addedhttps://github.com/mpapis/rubygems-bundler/blob/master/rubygems-bundl...
>
> So what adds the 00:00:00.000000000Z?   Is it part of the rubygems
> push process?
>
> Thisgemsupports older versions of rubygems but once it is uploaded
> to rubygems.org it will only work on 1.8.x  :-\
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
> Tony
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