Effects of Static Variables when

[Paul Okeke]

I reaaly want to the implication of calling static members of a class with an instance of such class. For example, Calendar now=Calendar.getInstance(); now.setTimeInMilis(someLongValue); now.MONTH; it gave some incorrect value but i want to know why?

[Bear Bibeault]

What do you think now.MONTH should have returned?

If you think it was the month of the loaded date, then you are not correct. now.MONTH is simply a key to be passed to into method such as get() and set();

[Paul Okeke]

At the begging I thought it will return the loaded Date but I found that I was long. Thanks for your concern.