Re: System Time-Millis

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From: Tad Frysinger
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:36

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Vander wrote:

> May sound stupid, but there is an uncertainty about the funktion
> 
> System.currentTimeMillis()
> 
> It is not said in the documentation whether the resulting value reflects 
> the current UTC time or the current local time. Any further help there?
> 
> - Vander
> 
My docs say that it is "the difference, measured in milliseconds, 
between the current time and midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC".

Further, it says to review the Date class doc for more info. That doc 
also implies it is UTC, but in a "modified" way.

Tad Frysinger (TeamB)

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