See proposal in https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/noda-time/cFYJlJfITOQ.
In summary: we currently have two ways to format and parse text: the
pattern-based API, which is strongly-typed and pretty straightforward, and the
BCL IFormatInfo-based API, which is underdocumented and confusing. (There are
other problems as well; see the post.)
Assuming no objections, we should remove all the static Parse/TryParse methods
and trim down the ToString overloads to two: the parameterless one and the one
used for IFormattable.
We'll also need to update the user guide.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
malcolm.roweon 14 Jul 2012 at 9:05