Rename "creation_doy" to "creation_dayofyear"

[Andy Ferris]

I suspect this is a typo, and should be creation_day rather than creation_doy?

[Martijn Visser]

No this is not a typo, it stands for "day of year".

From the LAS 1.2 spec:

File Creation Day of Year: Day, expressed as an unsigned short, on which this file was created. Day is computed as the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) day. January 1 is considered day 1.

File Creation Year: The year, expressed as a four digit number, in which the file was created.

Although arguably creation_day would still be a better name.

[Andy Ferris]

Haha, sorry didn’t realise that! creation_dayofyear?

[Claire Foster]

I remember thinking exactly the same thing the first time I came across "doy" though I don't think it was in this library. +1 for changing it to creation_dayofyear.

[Martijn Visser]

I'm fine with changing it to creation_dayofyear. Can we deprecate the old field name somehow?

[Andy Ferris]

I guess we could via getproperty?

[Martijn Visser]

Yeah that should work