How to set an alarm to fire properly at fixed time?

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Published on 2010-06-07T20:26:04Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 21:12 UTC
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I have this code

Calendar c = new GregorianCalendar();
        c.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR, 1);
        c.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 23);
        c.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 22);
        c.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
        c.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);

        // We want the alarm to go off 30 seconds from now.
        long firstTime = SystemClock.elapsedRealtime();
        firstTime += 30*1000;
        long a=c.getTimeInMillis();

        // Schedule the alarm!
        AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager)ctx.getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
        am.setRepeating(AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME_WAKEUP,
                c.getTimeInMillis(), 1*60*60*1000, sender);

It is not executed at 23:22h

What I am doing wrong? I noticed firstTime and c.getTimeInMillis() differs a lot in size and length. When I use firstTime, so when set to 30 seconds, the alarm is executed well.

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