> Just out of curiousity...why the '_datetime' suffix on these methods?
> Isn't that redundant? Or was it assuming that these methods might be
> showing up in classes outside of the DateTime namespace?

To differentiate from: _date, _time, _span, etc.

> And speaking of brevity...the 0.18 docs for DateTime say that
> 'time_zone_long_name' is short for $dt->tz->name. I see no evidence of a
> 'tz' method, though it'd be nice to have around, along with 'tz_name', etc.

'tz' is a key in the blessed hash of a DateTime object.  The docs should say 
"$dt->time_zone->name".

-J

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