Why is subtracting these two epoch-milli Times (in year 1927) giving a strange result?

If I run the following program, which parses two date strings referencing times 1 second apart and compares them: public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException { SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"); String str3 = "1927-12-31 23:54:07"; String str4 = "1927-12-31 23:54:08"; Date sDt3 = sf.parse(str3); Date sDt4 = sf.parse(str4); long ld3 = sDt3.getTime() /1000; long ld4 = sDt4.getTime() /1000; System.out.println(ld4-ld3); } The output is: 353 Why is ld4-ld3, not 1 (as I would expect from the one-second difference in the times), but 353? If I change the dates to times 1 second later: String str3 = "1927-12-31 23:54:08"; String str4 = "1927-12-31 23:54:09"; Then ld4-ld3 will be 1. Java version: java version "1.6.0_22" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_22-b04) Dynamic Code Evolution Client VM (build 0.2-b02-internal, 19.0-b04-internal, mixed mode) Timezone(`TimeZone.getDefault()`): sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo[id="Asia/Shanghai", offset=28800000,dstSavings=0, useDaylight=false, transitions=19, lastRule=null] Locale(Locale.getDefault()): zh_CN

Marayaty Marayaty
Aug 28, 2024 - 04:00
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Why is subtracting these two epoch-milli Times (in year 1927) giving a strange result?

If I run the following program, which parses two date strings referencing times 1 second apart and compares them: 

public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
    SimpleDateFormat sf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");  
    String str3 = "1927-12-31 23:54:07";  
    String str4 = "1927-12-31 23:54:08";  
    Date sDt3 = sf.parse(str3);  
    Date sDt4 = sf.parse(str4);  
    long ld3 = sDt3.getTime() /1000;  
    long ld4 = sDt4.getTime() /1000;
    System.out.println(ld4-ld3);
}

The output is: 

353

Why is ld4-ld3, not 1 (as I would expect from the one-second difference in the times), but 353?

If I change the dates to times 1 second later: 

String str3 = "1927-12-31 23:54:08";  
String str4 = "1927-12-31 23:54:09";

Then ld4-ld3 will be 1.

Java version: 

java version "1.6.0_22"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_22-b04)
Dynamic Code Evolution Client VM (build 0.2-b02-internal, 19.0-b04-internal, mixed mode)

Timezone(`TimeZone.getDefault()`):

sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo[id="Asia/Shanghai",
offset=28800000,dstSavings=0,
useDaylight=false,
transitions=19,
lastRule=null]

Locale(Locale.getDefault()): zh_CN
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