What should I name a DateTime property?

Question

If I have a class that stores a DateTime:

class LogEntry
{
    readonly DateTime dateTime;

    public LogEntry(DateTime dateTime)
    {
        this.dateTime = dateTime;
    }

    public DateTime ?????
    {
        get
        {
            return dateTime;
        }
    }
}

What should I name the DateTime property? Or should I split the property into 2 properties: 1) Date 2) Time?

edit: I was looking for a property name that provides inference that its value is both a date and a time, not a property specific to log entries (e.g., DateCreated doesn't provide any inference that it also shares the time the entry was created and vice versa).

Answer 1

Assuming LogEntry is used for logging, here is how some other logging platforms do it:

log4net calls it TimeStamp in the LoggingEvent class.

NLog calls it TimeStamp in the LogEventInfo class.

Enterprise Library calls it TimeStamp in the LogEntry class.

Microsoft calls it DateTime in the TraceEventCache class.
(TraceEventCache is passed into TraceListener Trace* calls. DateTime is the time at which the logging message was generated.)

Answer 2

LogDate
CreatedDate
EntryDate
StarDate // **

Pick a name that you feel describes the property best. And, no, do not split the property.

Answer 3

TimeStamp maybe?