Why is DateTime.Now a property and not a method?

Question

After reading this blog entry : http://wekeroad.com/post/4069048840/when-should-a-method-be-a-property,

I\'m wondering why Microsoft choose in C# :

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Answer 1

It actually is deterministic; it's output is not random, but is based on something quite predictable.

The 'current time' changes all the time; so to be relatively "the same" with each call, that value must change so that every time it's called, it's returning the current time.

EDIT:

This just occurred to me: Of course, two subsequent calls to a property getter can return different results, if something changed the property value in the interim. Properties are not supposed to be Constants.

So, that's what happening (conceptually) with DateTime.Now; its value is being changed between subsequent calls to it.