[threeten-dev] Opinion poll on Zone[d]DateTime

[Roger Riggs]

Hi Stephen,

ok, I'll make the change.

To avoid thrash; I'd prefer to do it at the same time as the package 
renaming,
either the end of this week or the beginning of next.

Roger


On 12/13/2012 1:31 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
> And I can safely conclude the answer of the poll.
>
> "Q1 What should the final class be called?"
> 1) ZonedDateTime 42%
> 2) ZoneDateTime 49%
> 3) Other 9%
> ZonalDateTime, SymbolicZoneDateTime, DateTimeWithZone,
> TimezoneDateTime, DateTimeTZ, DateTimeInTimeZone, DateTimeZone
>
> "Q4 Given this fact (alpha/preview), which name would you choose?"
> 1) ZonedDateTime 54%
> 2) ZoneDateTime 45%
>
> Q2/3 even spread of answers.
>
> Thus, pretty much 50/50. Given where we are, I could argue for either
> name and ultimately, in a few months time no-one would care.
>
> Ultimately, it seems that this name change is not significant enough
> to win a greater than 2:1 majority that I wanted. So, we should change
> back to ZonedDateTime.
>
> Roger, you volunteered to make this rename?
>
> thanks
> Stephen
>
>
>
>
> On 12 December 2012 23:01, Stephen Colebourne<scolebourne at joda.org>  wrote:
>> It seems like a poll is necessary for ZoneDateTime vs ZonedDateTime:
>>
>> http://www.rationalsurvey.com/s/6916
>>
>> Please note, that I will not necessarily follow the results of the
>> poll, but it will be a good data point.
>> Please distribute this to those you know.
>> thanks
>> Stephen

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Thanks, Roger

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