Jarwain 3 days ago

I'm not super sure about it being in the filename, if only because my understanding is that some of the lakes use it for partitioning and other metadata (metameta-data?).

Imo range is probably the most useful statistic in a folder/file name anyways for partitioning purposes. My vote would be for `^` as the range separator to minimize risk of collision and confusion. i.e. `timestamp=2025-03-27T00:00:00-0800^2025-03-30-0700` or `hour=0^12`,`hour=12^24`. `^` is valid across all systems, and I'd be very surprised if it was commonly used as a property/column name. Only collision I can think of is that its start-of-line in regex

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Jarwain 2 days ago

Too late to edit buuut

There's a standard! (for time intervals, and I could see it working here)[0]

> Section 3.2.6 of ISO 8601-1:2019 notes that "A solidus may be replaced by a double hyphen ["--"] by mutual agreement of the communicating partners",

So forget what I said; why exacerbate the standards problem?[1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_intervals [1]https://xkcd.com/927/