diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index addbbf30b5..1193f82c74 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sun May  4 16:04:28 2008  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
+
+	* time.c (obj2nsec): fix string argument.
+
 Sun May  4 14:29:14 2008  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
 
 	* eval.c (rb_obj_respond_to): check the result of respond_to? method
diff --git a/test/ruby/test_time.rb b/test/ruby/test_time.rb
index 452e22f919..9cbb6eaca6 100644
--- a/test/ruby/test_time.rb
+++ b/test/ruby/test_time.rb
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ class TestTime < Test::Unit::TestCase
     end
   end
 
+  def test_strtime
+    t = nil
+    assert_nothing_raised { t = Time.utc("2000", "1", "2" , "3", "4", "5") }
+    assert_equal(Time.utc(2000,1,2,3,4,5), t)
+  end
+
   def test_huge_difference
     if negative_time_t?
       assert_equal(Time.at(-0x80000000), Time.at(0x7fffffff) - 0xffffffff, "[ruby-dev:22619]")
diff --git a/time.c b/time.c
index 460a184507..0107c6a033 100644
--- a/time.c
+++ b/time.c
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ obj2nsec(VALUE obj, long *nsec)
     if (TYPE(obj) == T_STRING) {
 	obj = rb_str_to_inum(obj, 10, Qfalse);
         *nsec = 0;
-        return NUM2LONG(obj) * 1000;
+        return NUM2LONG(obj);
     }
 
     ts = time_timespec(obj, 1);