diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 899b9f6edf..cae1f7c322 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Jan 23 13:24:18 2003  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* time.c (time_arg): was accessing garbage argv value.
+
 Thu Jan 23 06:37:01 2003  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu.nokada@softhome.net>
 
 	* instruby.rb: should not contain destdir in shebang line.
diff --git a/time.c b/time.c
index 310530f2c0..ffad741658 100644
--- a/time.c
+++ b/time.c
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ time_arg(argc, argv, tm, usec)
 	if (argc == 8) {
 	    /* v[6] is timezone, but ignored */
 	}
-	else {
+	else if (argc == 7) {
 	    *usec = obj2long(v[6]);
 	}
     }