winitro You should store them in a config file, HashMaps won't be kept when you shut down your server. (You'd get a timestamp using System.currentTimeMillis() or, if you want to be extra-precise System.nanoTime()).
I don't see why you would ever need nano time when you're working with code that only ticks once every 50 milliseconds.
Garris0n I think it's worth mentioning, that there are 2 way, of course it's smarter to use System.currentTimeMillis()