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The names of the getMinutes, setMinutes, getHours, and setHours methods, with the get and set prefixes, makes it clear that the methods are getters and setters, but the use of get and set is a convention, rather than a language-enforced imperative. You should follow the convention, however, because certain Java programming environments expect getters and setters to have names that begin with get and set.