Hi,

I'm reading in Timestamps from a Database, which originate from user
input. The dates look like this:

2006-01-12 14:00:56.0
2006-03-17 11:05:59.0
2006-02-19 21:00:00.0
...

and I read them into a Date() object using the following code:

SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-dd-MM
HH:mm:ss'.0'");
Date date = simpleDateFormat.parse("2006-02-19 21:00:00.0");
long milis = date.getTime();

just taking the date from a variable, of course.

Now I have noticed, that the miliseconds returned by getDate() are not
uniformly distributed when it comes to the last digit of the long
number "milis".

Most of the time it remains zero. I guess that's because the
miliisecond count is always zero in the dates, which I read in.
However, I thought that the last digit should be uniformly distributed
from 0 to 9.

That's in fact what I would like to try to achieve. Can somebody tell
me, which piece of code will turn the miliseconds returned from the
Date.getTime() function into a number, whose last digit is randomly
distributed between 0 and 9 ?

Fritz