These last couple of days a discussion has been started on how to call the new TimeZone datatype in the Base Class Library that supports the new TimeZone API's from Windows Vista. The team responsible is going for the name TimeZone2. If I had to choose a smiley to go with this new name I would not know which one to choose from these: [:O] [:(] [:S] [:|] [:'(] [:$] [:@] [:^)] [8o|] [^o)] [+o(] [*-)] [8-)]. This is the WTF of the week! Omer van Kloeten has nicely summarized the related blog posts, you can read his blog post here.
I have the impression that lately a lot of teams at Microsoft are going nuts and those that realise that they are becoming crazy leave in a hurry. But I think that I get this impression because nowadays a lot of Microsoft employees blog more and more and therefore this kind of ideas become widely spread in a matter of hours, days. A couple of years Microsoft would just say: "It's TimeZone2 so STFU!".
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