diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3c3ddfe077..630168578b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Mon Nov 24 19:53:47 2008  Tadayoshi Funaba  <tadf@dotrb.org>
+
+	* lib/date.rb (inspect): changed again.
+
 Mon Nov 24 18:35:00 2008  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* lib/time.rb: r20251 reverted.  The patched behavior do not round
diff --git a/lib/date.rb b/lib/date.rb
index 3da3d21f8b..2c9792562b 100644
--- a/lib/date.rb
+++ b/lib/date.rb
@@ -1470,7 +1470,9 @@ class Date
   def hash() @ajd.hash end
 
   # Return internal object state as a programmer-readable string.
-  def inspect() format('#<%s: %s,%s,%s>', self.class, @ajd, @of, @sg) end
+  def inspect
+    format('#<%s: %s (%s,%s,%s)>', self.class, to_s, @ajd, @of, @sg)
+  end
 
   # Return the date as a human-readable string.
   #
diff --git a/test/date/test_date.rb b/test/date/test_date.rb
index de7e4838c3..f2be9e24c4 100644
--- a/test/date/test_date.rb
+++ b/test/date/test_date.rb
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ class TestDate < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_instance_of(DateSub, DateSub.today)
     assert_instance_of(DateTimeSub, DateTimeSub.now)
 
-    assert_equal('#<DateSub: -1/2,0,2299161>', d.inspect)
+    assert_equal('#<DateSub: -4712-01-01 (-1/2,0,2299161)>', d.inspect)
     assert_equal('-4712-01-01', d.to_s)
-    assert_equal('#<DateTimeSub: -1/2,0,2299161>', dt.inspect)
+    assert_equal('#<DateTimeSub: -4712-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 (-1/2,0,2299161)>', dt.inspect)
     assert_equal('-4712-01-01T00:00:00+00:00', dt.to_s)
 
     d2 = d + 1
diff --git a/test/date/test_date_attr.rb b/test/date/test_date_attr.rb
index 2e71b5f501..5187d5d3e5 100644
--- a/test/date/test_date_attr.rb
+++ b/test/date/test_date_attr.rb
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ class TestDateAttr < Test::Unit::TestCase
 
     [date, datetime].each_with_index do |d, i|
       if i == 0
-	assert_match(/\#<Date\d?: 4877807\/2,0,2299161>/,
+	assert_match(/\#<Date\d?: 1965-05-23 \(4877807\/2,0,2299161\)>/,
 		     d.inspect)
       else
-	assert_match(/\#<DateTime\d?: 210721343519\/86400,0,2299161>/,
+	assert_match(/\#<DateTime\d?: 1965-05-23T22:31:59\+00:00 \(210721343519\/86400,0,2299161\)>/,
 		     d.inspect)
       end