This bug has been present way back, and has never been fixed.
Running the Hotspot Server VM Java 6 Update 3, I am getting seriously
accelerated system clock times which can be as much as a minute over a
couple of hours.
Gateway GT5636E Quad processor Windows Vista Home Premium OS.
This is just unacceptable for Java to have the side-effect of altering
the system clock.
I have removed ALL Thread.sleep calls and have created my own facility
using wait, as the bug was originally with the sleep call. This helps
most of the time, but there is still an alteration of the windows
system clock.
It has something to do with Java moving the system clock back so that
threads which are waiting on time will be awakened.
Yes, I use the ForceTimeHighResolution argument to the VM... Doesn't
fix it, apparently under all circumstances.
I provide the argument under Java Web Start, and can only assume it
gets passed properly to the underlying VM.
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