Issue with now() within a transaction in pg74.213.jdbc.jar

Most of my tables have a last update date and during some testing in
Postgres 7.4.1 I noticed that the last_update date was slightly in the past
for anything updated within a transaction. The amount it is off by seems to
vary: as little as 30 seconds; as much as a couple of minutes.

Tables updated outside of a transaction seem to have an accurate timestamp.
If I setAutoCommit(true) instead of setAutoCommit(false) and comment out my
commit/rollbacks, the timestamp is accurate. Within a transaction, it is as
though I have set the WayBack machine for a random trip 1/2 - 2 minutes back
in time.

I am using pg74.213.jdbc.jar. Is there a more current driver?

Has anyone else noticed this? Is anyone looking at it?

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