[Bug 394] Y2038 time overflow/pre Epoch bug : java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError on systems with uninitialized clock

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Tue Jun 22 06:34:01 PDT 2010


http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=394





------- Comment #6 from aph at redhat.com  2010-06-22 13:34 -------
This one should be pretty easy to fix: when currentTimeMillis is negative, add
in an offset.  You'd only have to do it once.

There is a problem with that, though: currentTimeMillis would no longer agree
with the system clock, so wouldn't meet its spec.  So perhaps we shouldn't do
it...


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