Re: API Change Proposal: Change UDTS_WINDOWS_DATE_TIME to UDTS_NOTNET_DATE_TIME

1) Is the proposal to change the name, or to add the new name, while
keeping the old name for compatibility, and consider the old one
deprecated?

2) Is it a good idea to use names so closely tied to a product?
These products change names and get reinvented every couple of years,
although the data types are much more stable. (com, dcom, ole, ocx...)

Would it be better to use a name that reflected the 64 bit nature and
the offset (1/1/1/) of the datatype and then separately document this
data type is used by dotnet?

Then when the product name changes, the API doesn't.
The name can then also be shared if the data type is used by other
non-windows software, instead of adding new constant names for the same
thing.

tex

Eric Mader wrote:
> 
> 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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