File timestamp precision on Linux?

[Alan Bateman]

On 09/06/2014 19:13, Xueming Shen wrote:
>
> oh, to be clear, I'm on a 32-bit linux, so the system stat probably 
> works for a second precision.
I think I see what is going on. It's that the Oracle downloads of JDK 8 
are built on an older distribution (as Oracle binaries have to work on a 
large range of distributions). This will sort itself out soon once for 
JDK 9 builds once the build platform/compiler upgrade is done [1]. To 
resolve it on JDK 8 requires using a JDK build that is built for the 
distribution.

-Alan

[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2014-June/000802.html