Why is DateTime.zone private?

[DanielSWolf]

Each DateTime instance has an associated time zone in its zone field. There is a method setZone for changing the zone (in a clone). But there is no "official" way to read that Zone object because DateTime.zone is marked as @access private. Accordingly, the TypeScript type definitions at DefinitelyTyped don't include this member.

Is there a reason for not allowing access to this time zone?

[icambron]

Yeah, per the other ticket, that's the unsupported way you could accomplish creating an IANA zone by name. It's private just because I didn't see a compelling need, and the smaller the interface, the less chance of bugs or misunderstandings, and the more I can change things without breaking people's code. So what I would need to change it is a compelling use case for making it public.

[DanielSWolf]

@icambron I added an explanation to the related issue #369.

[icambron]

Fixed in #404