Re: API Change Proposal: Change UDTS_WINDOWS_DATE_TIME to UDTS_DOTNET_DATE_TIME

I presume that you meant "DOTNET" in the API proposal subject, and not 
"NOTNET" :-)

George Rhoten
IBM Globalization Center of Competency/ICU  San José, CA, USA



Eric Mader <[email protected]> 
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01/21/2005 03:27 PM

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API Change Proposal: Change UDTS_WINDOWS_DATE_TIME to 
UDTS_NOTNET_DATE_TIME






Please send comments by 01/28/2005.

The universal time scale API in utmscale.h and 
com.ibm.icu.util.UniversalTimeScale.java talks about a time scale called 
"Windows DateTime." There isn't any such data type of time scale in the 
Windows 32-bit API. What was meant was .NET's System.DateTime structure.

This proposal is to change the names of the constants that reference 
this time scale to correctly reflect it's origin:

ICU4C: UDTS_WINDOWS_DATE_TIME => UDTS_DOTNET_DATE_TIME
ICU4J: WINDOWS_DATE_TIME => DOTNET_DATE_TIME.

The actual data for this time scale (a 64-bit integer of ticks since 
Midnight January 01, 0001) is correct; we're only changing the name to 
more correctly reflect the source of the time scale.

Regards,
Eric Mader
IBM GCoC - San José
5600 Cottle Road  M/S 50-2/B11
San Jose, CA 95193

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