We observed that when with below code:
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
// set date to 1st Jan 1900
calendar.set(1900, 0, 1);
//SMALL_DATE = new Date(DateUtils.startOfTheDay(calendar.getTime()).getTime());
SMALL_DATE = new Date(startOfTheDay(calendar.getTime()).getTime());
((Date) SMALL_DATE.clone()).getTime())
((Date) SMALL_DATE.clone()).getTime()) this will return different value since sapmachine-11.0.17 compared with sapmachine-11.0.16, if the VM timezone set to be like: "Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam (CEST, +0200)"