Having trouble passing values between methods

Question

So if this isnt the right spot for this.
Anyhow any coments on where I went wrong or need to fix will be apriciated.
So I got two methods that return a value (getHour() and getMinute(). The values that are returned I am tring to pass into showTime. However it doesn't seem to work as all I get is zero's.
I've done a search around on the net and Im starting to thing my intellagnce is limited.
import java.util.Scanner;
public class First
static int sH, sM;
    public static void main(String args[]){
        getHour();
        getMinute();
       showTime(sH,sM);
    static int getHour(){
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("Please enter the hour: ");
        int setHour = input.nextInt();
        if(setHour <= 24){
            System.out.println("You entered " +setHour+ " for the hour.");
        }else{
            System.out.println("Please enter the hour number from 0 to 24");
            getHour();
     return sH;
     static int getMinute(){
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("Please enter the minutes: ");
        int setMinute = input.nextInt();
        if(setMinute <= 60){
            System.out.println("You entered " +setMinute+ " for the minutes.");
        }else{
            System.out.println("Please enter the hour number from 0 to 60");
            getMinute();
        return sM;
    private static void showTime(int sH, int sM){
          System.out.println(+sH+":"+sM);
}

Answer 1

Hi,pls compare ur coding with the one i have posted below. In your code, the variables sH and sM are still in initialised state(value =0) and its not assigned with the values returned by getHour and getMinute methods. This is why the shoTime method returned zero. Hope i helped you.
import java.util.Scanner;
* @author Jaison KS-IT
public class First {
static int sH, sM;
public static void main(String args[])
getHour();
getMinute();
showTime(sH,sM);
static int getHour(){
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Please enter the hour: ");
int setHour = input.nextInt();
if(setHour <= 24){
System.out.println("You entered " setHour " for the hour.");
sH = setHour;
}else{
System.out.println("Please enter the hour number from 0 to 24");
getHour();
return sH;
static int getMinute(){
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Please enter the minutes: ");
int setMinute = input.nextInt();
if(setMinute <= 60){
System.out.println("You entered " setMinute " for the minutes.");
sM = setMinute;
}else{
System.out.println("Please enter the hour number from 0 to 60");
getMinute();
return sM;
private static void showTime(int sH, int sM){
          System.out.println(+sH+":"+sM);
}