Now that everyone had their say (I hope) I've made a quick tally of
the votes so far:
My $0.02USD;
Most Ideal: Grant the 'Date' namespace to Internals (Not going to happen for the volume of reasons already discussed.) DO NOT REPLY WITH ALL THE REASONS I AM WRONG FOR HAVING THIS OPINION. I ACCEPT THAT IT WON'T HAPPEN. SO DON'T.......NONONONO NO BUTS, I SAID DON'T.
Least Ideal: Leave it out entirely until 5.3. This was the argument during the 5.1 RC stage. There's no excuse to be having this argument still.
Compromise: Give it the red-headed-stepchild names of DateTime and DateTimeZone.
-Sara