diff --git a/dev/com.ibm.websphere.security/src/com/ibm/websphere/security/audit/AuditEvent.java b/dev/com.ibm.websphere.security/src/com/ibm/websphere/security/audit/AuditEvent.java
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/dev/com.ibm.websphere.security/src/com/ibm/websphere/security/audit/AuditEvent.java
+++ b/dev/com.ibm.websphere.security/src/com/ibm/websphere/security/audit/AuditEvent.java
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ public class AuditEvent {
      */
     public String getCurrentTime() {
         TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
-        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm'Z'"); // Quoted "Z" to indicate UTC, no timezone offset
+        DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ"); // Quoted "Z" to indicate UTC, no timezone offset
         df.setTimeZone(tz);
         String nowAsISO = df.format(new Date());
Issue<I>-AuditForCloudSequenceConsistency