ZonedDateTime and OffsetDateTime could do with Date and Time properties

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> What situation does this request make simpler?

Avoiding long property chains for little purpose.

To find out today's date in a particular zone, I currently have to use:

    var date = clock.Now.InZone(zone).LocalDateTime.Date;

Ditto for time of day.

Three options suggest themselves:

1) var date = clock.Now.InZone(zone).Date;
2) var date = clock.Now.InZone(zone).LocalDate;
3) var date = clock.Now.InZone(zone).Local.Date;

In the first two options it would be adding new properties to ZonedDateTime - 
either Date and Time, or LocalDate and LocalTime. In the third option it would 
be adding "Local" as a synonym for "LocalDateTime", which works nicely here but 
is a little bleh. Whatever we do for ZonedDateTime we should do for 
OffsetDateTime too.

I *think* I prefer option 1, but equally emphasizing the "local" part is nice 
too...

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jonsk...@google.com on 30 Jan 2013 at 11:25

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Option 1 seems like the most sensible to me: we already provide Year, Month, 
Day, Hour, etc properties on both, which are clearly 'local' values, and so 
also adding in the Date and TimeOfDay [presumably? q.v. LocalDateTime] 
properties would make sense too; the return type and summary should make it 
clear that they're local dates/times.

Original comment by malcolm.rowe on 30 Jan 2013 at 11:37

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Yes, let's go with that then - and definitely TimeOfDay to match LocalDateTime. 
I'd misremembered the name, but I definitely want them to match!

Will do it on the train tomorrow.

Original comment by jonsk...@google.com on 30 Jan 2013 at 11:39

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Original comment by malcolm.rowe on 30 Jan 2013 at 11:40

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement, Priority-Medium, Milestone-1.1.0

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This issue was closed by revision b3629b3d7d3e.

Original comment by jonathan.skeet on 31 Jan 2013 at 7:12

• Changed state: Fixed