[jira] [Closed] (AMQ-2504) Synchronize time without modifying the system date.

["Timothy Bish (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-2504?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Timothy Bish closed AMQ-2504.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

This is what an NTP server is for, a workaround is to use the BrokerTimeStampPlugin to update the time stamp on messages as they are processed.

> Synchronize time without modifying the system date.
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>
>                 Key: AMQ-2504
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-2504
>             Project: ActiveMQ
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: JMS client
>            Reporter: Adam Walczak
>             Fix For: 5.6.0
>
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> I have a proposal to create a global variable in ActiveMQ's internals which alters the value of System.getCurrentMillis(). Thanks to this we should be able to synchronize clients connected to a JMS server (equipped with an additional NTP server for example) with out modifying their system dates.
> Scenario:
> 1. Servers system date is sync'ed with an NTP server.
> 2. Clients retrieve their time difference from the NTP server
> 3. The client set ActiveMq...setTimeDifferenceToServer(...)
> 4. Every call for system millis in ActiveMQ sources looks like this: System.getCurrentMillis() + ActiveMq...getTimeDifferenceToServer() 
> I think it also would be an good idea to wrapper the System.getCurrentMillis() in a internal ActiveMQ method and never call it again directly. This would allow the above modifications and perhaps a to transit to System.nanoTime() to indicate millis in the future which is far more  accurate (getCurrentMillis() has a 0-20ms error range).

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