diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 794bdcfef6e..116f0bec96e 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -182,6 +182,8 @@ Release 2.4.1 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-10527. Fix incorrect return code and allow more retries on EINTR.
     (kihwal)
 
+    HADOOP-10612. NFS failed to refresh the user group id mapping table (brandonli)
+
 Release 2.4.0 - 2014-04-07 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-nfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/nfs/nfs3/IdUserGroup.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-nfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/nfs/nfs3/IdUserGroup.java
index 1abea8efa59..1ed3d3f8bde 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-nfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/nfs/nfs3/IdUserGroup.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-nfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/nfs/nfs3/IdUserGroup.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.util.Time;
 
 import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
 import com.google.common.collect.BiMap;
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ public long getTimeout() {
   }
   
   synchronized private boolean isExpired() {
-    return lastUpdateTime - System.currentTimeMillis() > timeout;
+    return Time.monotonicNow() - lastUpdateTime > timeout;
   }
 
   // If can't update the maps, will keep using the old ones
@@ -210,7 +211,7 @@ synchronized public void updateMaps() throws IOException {
 
     uidNameMap = uMap;
     gidNameMap = gMap;
-    lastUpdateTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
+    lastUpdateTime = Time.monotonicNow();
   }
 
   synchronized public int getUid(String user) throws IOException {