Hi, Please find below a fix for 8144262: LogRecord.getMillis() method is a convenience API that should not have been deprecated https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8144262
webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfuchs/webrev_8144262/webrev.00 specdiff: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfuchs/webrev_8144262/specdiff-logging/java/util/logging/LogRecord.html When 8072645:java.util.logging should use java.time to get more precise time stamps was implemented we decided to deprecate LogRecord.getMillis() and LogRecord.setMillis() in favor of the new LogRecord.getInstant() and LogRecord.setInstant(). This may have been a bit hasty as LogRecord.getMillis() can in fact be seen as a convenience method - a shortcut to LogRecord.getInstant().toEpochMillis(). The only method we really wanted to deprecate was LogRecord.setMillis() as that would truncate the instant to milliseconds: in other words, LogRecord.setMillis(LogRecord.getMillis()) was no longer idempotent. This changes proposes to restore LogRecord.getMillis() to its previous status, and also fixes LogRecord.setInstant to reject instant values which would not fit in a long milliseconds-since-epoch - which would have caused serialization to fail and LogRecord.getMillis() to throw an undocumented ArithmeticException. Rationale about this proposed change have also been discussed in this thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-November/037039.html best regards, -- daniel