When a Java TimerTask is scheduled in a Timer, is it already “executing”?

Question

I would like to clarify something about TimerTask. When you have the code below:

timer.schedule(task, 60000);

where the task is scheduled to ru

Answer 1

I don't know why your code returns false.

The following code prints true.

import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;


public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Timer timer = new Timer();
        TimerTask task = new TimerTask() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                System.out.println("hi");
            }

        };
        timer.schedule(task, 60000);
        System.out.println(task.cancel());
    }
}

If the last println is commented, the program prints hi.