LocalDate.LocalDateTime vs LocalDate.Midnight - naming suggestion

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Not really a feature request, just wonder if this property would be better 
named 'Midnight' since (i) that's what it actually returns, as explained by the 
comment on it and (ii) LocalTime has a corresponding static property called 
'Midnight' that gets midnight time and (iii) In the future you might want to 
add a matching '.Noon' property.


        /// <summary>
        /// Gets a <see cref="LocalDateTime" /> at midnight on the date represented by this local date, in the same calendar system.
        /// </summary>
        public LocalDateTime LocalDateTime { get { return localTime; } }

Original issue reported on code.google.com by HighTech...@gmail.com on 18 Apr 2012 at 6:18

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I think I'd rather change it from a property to a method at the same time - 
"Midnight" isn't logically a property of a date. The same argument pretty much 
holds for LocalDateTime as a property name, which is another reason to change 
it.

I think if you want to represent "midnight on a date" and "noon on a date" then 
it would be more sensible to have a Noon constant on LocalTime, so you could 
use:

    var noon = date + LocalTime.Noon;
    var midnight = date + LocalTime.Midnight;

(The addition operator is already present, unless my memory's going.)

Will consider what the method should be called...

Original comment by jonathan.skeet on 18 Apr 2012 at 6:41

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Yes, I quickly stopped using .LocalDateTime and use "date + LocalTime.Midnight" 
instead because the intent is clearer and I'm calculating lots of other 
relevant time ranges like afternoon, evening, night, ... so the pattern is the 
same if I use "+ LocalTime".

Original comment by HighTech...@gmail.com on 18 Apr 2012 at 6:59

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Right. I think date.AtMidnight() is probably reasonable as a method, as it has 
better discoverability than the + operator (which I'm not planning on removing, 
of course).

Will make the change when I get a chance, which may or may not be tonight...

Original comment by jonsk...@google.com on 18 Apr 2012 at 7:52

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Fixed in revision ff469eb394c2.

Original comment by jonathan.skeet on 18 Apr 2012 at 10:11

• Changed state: Fixed