HP/UX Java 1.3.1.02 date/time differences

From: Steffen Huebner (hueb_s_at_gmx.de)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: 30 Apr 2004 05:36:33 -0700

Hi!

We seem to have differences between the unix system time (coming from
an NTP server) and the time our java application has (as it produces
timestamps).
At the start of the app the time is synchro and after about 2 weeks
the time is 20secs ahead of the system time...

Does the Java VM calculates the current time by its own (i.e. counting
secs from start)? Or should it better get the time (if
System.currentTimeMillis() is called) from the host system?

Regards,
Steffen

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