Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday, March 08, 2012 01:22:42 Stewart Gordon wrote:
> On 07/03/2012 08:10, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> > Yeah, Clock.now() would be good and Data.today() as well.
> 
> My utility library has, for consistency, DateValue.now, TimeValue.now and
> DateTime.now.

I specically avoided giving a way to get the time with any type other than 
SysTime (and TickDuration for using a monotonic clock), because I believe that 
it leads to incorrect behavior. Any time that you're dealing with the system 
clock, you should be dealing with SysTime. Date, TimeOfDay, and DateTime are 
for when you need the date and/or time but don't care about what absolute time 
it's associated with in the real world. Treating DateTime as corresponding to 
a specific point in time is just going to cause problems, because it has no 
time zone. It could correspond to over 24 different times. By restricting 
getting the time to SysTime, it encourages the writing of correct code.

- Jonathan M Davis