diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 88784197b..8ec9e9d86 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@
   <release version="3.4" date="TBA" description="TBA">
     <action issue="LANG-984" type="fix" dev="sebb">DurationFormatUtils does not handle large durations correctly</action>
     <action issue="LANG-982" type="fix" dev="sebb">DurationFormatUtils.formatDuration(61999, "s.SSSS") - ms field size should be 4 digits</action>
-  </release>
+    <action issue="LANG-978" type="fix" dev="sebb">Failing tests with Java 8 b128</action>
+    </release>
       
   <release version="3.3" date="TBA" description="Bug fixes and and new features including: DifferenceBuilder, ClassPathUtils, RandomUtils and Jaro-Winkler String distance metric">
     <action issue="LANG-621" type="fix" dev="kinow" due-to="Philip Hodges, Thomas Neidhart">ReflectionToStringBuilder.toString does not debug 3rd party object fields within 3rd party object</action>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/time/DurationFormatUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/time/DurationFormatUtils.java
index f8b9d92d2..57c637379 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/time/DurationFormatUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/time/DurationFormatUtils.java
@@ -442,12 +442,10 @@ public class DurationFormatUtils {
                     buffer.append(paddedValue(seconds, padWithZeros, count));
                     lastOutputSeconds = true;
                 } else if (value == S) {
-                    if (lastOutputSeconds) {
-                        milliseconds += 1000;
-                        final String str = padWithZeros
-                                ? StringUtils.leftPad(Long.toString(milliseconds), count, '0')
-                                : Long.toString(milliseconds);
-                        buffer.append(str.substring(1));
+                    if (lastOutputSeconds) { 
+                        // ensure at least 3 digits are displayed even if padding is not selected
+                        int width = padWithZeros ? Math.max(3, count) : 3;
+                        buffer.append(paddedValue(milliseconds, true, width));
                     } else {
                         buffer.append(paddedValue(milliseconds, padWithZeros, count));
                     }