On Oct 30, 8:20 am, Gordon Beaton <n....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:19:48 -0700, FutureScalper wrote:
> > 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.
>
> While I can sympathize, I do wonder what kind of operating system
> allows its system clock to be changed by an unprivileged user process?
>
> /gordon
>
> --
Well, that's a good point. I wonder why it is necessary to alter the
clock anyway. Ironic that Java has no facilities at the user level
for altering the system clock, but that the runtime alters it as a
bug.
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