System time off an hour?

[Root]

Why would

Timestamp stop_time = new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis());

System.out.println(stop_time);


return an hour slow? Checked bios and windows time.

 

[Root]

very odd....

I changed the windows time up an hour and it return the correct hour. (moved
2 hours)

changed it back and it was still slow by 1?

hit apply did the above again.

And now it returns the correct time.... Does this happen often?

 

[Paul Lutus]

Why would

Timestamp stop_time = new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis());

System.out.println(stop_time);


return an hour slow? Checked bios and windows time.

It may be that this specific method doesn't honor daylight time.

 

[P.Hill]

It may be that this specific method doesn't honor daylight time.

Which method Timestamp.toString()?
That is possible since it is an override of Date.toString()
and says it "Formats a timestamp in JDBC timestamp escape format"
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/sql/Timestamp.html#toString()

Note that toString() is not guarenteed to do anything but provide
a useful string, but I see on my machine during DLS the result is the current
wall clock local time (with summer DLS).

I believe the OPS problem is he jerked with the machines TZ, but needs
to restart the VM to get this to take effect in the VM.

-Paul