diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f0da9f5ef3..29fb78af17 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sun Dec 23 17:00:23 2007  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
+
+	* lib/time.rb (Time.httpdate): use Time.utc for
+	  "day-of-week, dd-mon-yy HH::MM:SS GMT" format.
+
 Sun Dec 23 16:12:40 2007  Eric Hodel  <drbrain@segment7.net>
 
 	* lib/rdoc:  Fix 1.9 warnings.
diff --git a/lib/time.rb b/lib/time.rb
index 301d9b372b..0cd9008521 100644
--- a/lib/time.rb
+++ b/lib/time.rb
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ class Time
              (\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d)\x20
              GMT
              \s*\z/ix =~ date
-        self.parse(date)
+        Time.utc(1900+$3.to_i, $2, $1.to_i, $4.to_i, $5.to_i, $6.to_i)
       elsif /\A\s*
              (?:Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun)\x20
              (Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)\x20