Re: new Date(), System.currentTimeMillis() and system clock accuracy

Hi,
Im having a problem getting a higher resolution than 10ms on my system
clock (on XP) using both the getTime() method in Date and the
currentTimeMillis() method in System to measure the time elapsed
between two points in my code. I wrote this small peice to test this
resolution:

long milliseconds;
for(int i = 0; i != 50; i++){
  long time1 = System.currentTimeMillis();
  long time2;
  milliseconds = 0;
  while(milliseconds < 1){
    time2 = System.currentTimeMillis();
    milliseconds = time2 - time1;
  }
  System.out.println("currentTimeMillis(): " + milliseconds + "ms");}

for(int i = 0; i != 50; i++){
  Date date1 = new Date();
  Date date2;
  milliseconds = 0;
  while(milliseconds < 1){
    date2 = new Date();
    milliseconds = date2.getTime() - date1.getTime();
  }
  System.out.println("new Date(): " + milliseconds + "ms");

}

Each method assumedly gets its time from the same place since they
return very much the same values (lots of 10ms and the occasional
20ms). Is there some way to update the system clock before checking
it? I really need a granularity of 1ms for my program to work.

-Numeron