Kafka consumer does not start from latest message

I want to have a Kafka Consumer which starts from the latest message in a topic.

Here is the java code:

private static Properties properties = new Properties();
private static KafkaConsumer<String, String> consumer;
static
{
    properties.setProperty("bootstrap.servers","localhost");
    properties.setProperty("enable.auto.commit", "true");
    properties.setProperty("key.deserializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer");
    properties.setProperty("value.deserializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer");
    properties.setProperty("group.id", "test");
    properties.setProperty("auto.offset.reset", "latest");
    consumer = new KafkaConsumer<>(properties);

    consumer.subscribe(Collections.singletonList("mytopic"));
}

@Override
public StreamHandler call() throws Exception
{
    while (true) 
    {
        ConsumerRecords<String, String> consumerRecords = consumer.poll(200);
        Iterable<ConsumerRecord<String, String>> records = consumerRecords.records("mytopic");
        for(ConsumerRecord<String, String> rec : records)
        {
            System.out.println(rec.value());
        }
    }
}

Although the value for auto.offset.reset is latest, but the consumer starts form messages which belong to 2 days ago and then it catches up with the latest messages.

What am I missing?