why does my while statement not work ?

[rix]

The snippet below is one constructor i have for the class TimeFun. The value s is the current (get) seconds value.

TimeFun(int s)
{

int timestart = s;
Calendar Tim = new GregorianCalendar();
   
do {
System.out.print("A second");
}
while (Tim.get(Calendar.SECOND) == timestart);

System.out.print("A second has expired");

}

i have been experienting with this code, ideally im trying to make a timer count up from 0, but without using a thread. I simply cannot understand why the while always evaluates to true.

Im not looking for an alternative way to solve the problem, just an explanation of why the output is an infinite stream of System.out.print

Thanks

[ArchAngel]

Because that's not how Calendar works. Did you check the Calendar API?

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/.../Calendar.html

The object you're creating doesn't automatically update with the current time.