See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14991183/junit-test-report-testsuites-timestamp-is-epoch

We are seeing this same problem in 1.6. The timestamp is Jan. 1, 1970 with the time calculated from that date on many tests.

In our case, it is many, but not all generated XML results. We do have some testsuites that report the correct timestamp/time.

This also happens on tests tasks used on TestNG as well. Please fix.

Output of a single test's .xml, Notice the timestamp is 1970.

<?xml version="1.1" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<testsuite name="com.arcsight.qa.poc.nonweb.OneParameterizedTests" tests="2" failures="0" errors="0" timestamp="1970-01-01T00:00:00" hostname="NGODO2" time="1.384304772942E9">
<properties/>
<testcase name="oneTest[0](one)" classname="com.arcsight.qa.poc.nonweb.OneParameterizedTests" time="0.013"/>
<testcase name="oneTest[1](two)" classname="com.arcsight.qa.poc.nonweb.OneParameterizedTests" time="0.0"/>
<system-out><![CDATA[System.out.println(): Inside oneTest Parameter:one
System.out.println(): Inside oneTest Parameter:two
]]></system-out>
<system-err><![CDATA[log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (com.arcsight.qa.poc.nonweb.OneParameterizedTests).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
]]></system-err>
</testsuite>

$ gradle --version

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Gradle 1.8
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Build time: 2013-09-24 07:32:33 UTC
Build number: none
Revision: 7970ec3503b4f5767ee1c1c69f8b4186c4763e3d

Groovy: 1.8.6
Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.2 compiled on July 8 2013
Ivy: 2.2.0
JVM: 1.7.0_25 (Oracle Corporation 23.25-b01)
OS: Windows 7 6.1 amd64