diff --git a/java/com.sap.sse.shared.android/src/com/sap/sse/concurrent/LockUtil.java b/java/com.sap.sse.shared.android/src/com/sap/sse/concurrent/LockUtil.java
index be927203809..be2e8da596e 100644
--- a/java/com.sap.sse.shared.android/src/com/sap/sse/concurrent/LockUtil.java
+++ b/java/com.sap.sse.shared.android/src/com/sap/sse/concurrent/LockUtil.java
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.Timer;
+import java.util.TimerTask;
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.concurrent.locks.Lock;
@@ -12,6 +14,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantReadWriteLock.ReadLock;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
+import com.sap.sse.common.Duration;
 import com.sap.sse.common.TimePoint;
 import com.sap.sse.common.Util;
 import com.sap.sse.common.impl.MillisecondsTimePoint;
@@ -53,6 +56,18 @@ public class LockUtil {
     private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(Util.class.getName());
     private static final Map<NamedReentrantReadWriteLock, TimePoint> lastTimeWriteLockWasObtained = new ConcurrentWeakHashMap<NamedReentrantReadWriteLock, TimePoint>();
     
+    private static TimePoint timePointNoOlderThanOneSecond;
+    
+    static {
+        new Timer("LockUtil timestamp generator", /* isDaemon */ true).schedule(
+            new TimerTask() {
+                @Override
+                public void run() {
+                    timePointNoOlderThanOneSecond = MillisecondsTimePoint.now();
+                }
+            }, /* delay 0 means immediate execution */ 0l, /* period 1s */ 1000l);
+    }
+    
     /**
      * Tells how many other threads propagated which held lock to the key thread. During propagation, a lock is
      * considered held if it is really locked by the propagating thread or if the propagating thread received it itself
@@ -86,7 +101,7 @@ public class LockUtil {
 
     public static void lockForWrite(NamedReentrantReadWriteLock lock) {
         acquireLockVirtuallyOrActually(lock, lock.writeLock(), ReadOrWrite.WRITE);
-        lastTimeWriteLockWasObtained.put(lock, MillisecondsTimePoint.now());
+        lastTimeWriteLockWasObtained.put(lock, timePointNoOlderThanOneSecond);
     }
     
     private static void acquireLockVirtuallyOrActually(NamedReentrantReadWriteLock lock, final Lock readOrWriteLock, final ReadOrWrite readOrWrite) {
@@ -150,12 +165,12 @@ public class LockUtil {
                     + " to be unlocked but no time recorded for when it was last obtained.\n"
                     + "This is where the lock interaction happened:\n" + getCurrentStackTrace());
         } else {
-            TimePoint now = MillisecondsTimePoint.now();
-            final long heldWriteLockForMillis = now.asMillis() - timePointWriteLockWasObtained.asMillis();
-            if (heldWriteLockForMillis > 10000l) {
+            TimePoint now = timePointNoOlderThanOneSecond;
+            final Duration heldWriteLockForMillis = timePointWriteLockWasObtained.until(now);
+            if (heldWriteLockForMillis.compareTo(Duration.ONE_SECOND.times(10)) > 0) {
                 String stackTrace = getCurrentStackTrace();
-                logger.info("write lock " + lock.getName() + " was held for more than 10s (" + heldWriteLockForMillis
-                        + "ms). It got unlocked here: " + stackTrace);
+                logger.info("write lock " + lock.getName() + " was approximately held for more than 10s (" + heldWriteLockForMillis
+                        + "). It got unlocked here: " + stackTrace);
             }
         }
     }