What is the reasoning behind the filename mangling used ?

[rossmcm]

I realise why the filenames are mangled - I just want to know why they are mangled in the particular way they are: i.e.

hello.txt

becomes:

hello.d20110114-u085532.txt

I guess "d" is date, and "u" is UTC, but why not just:

hello.20110114085532.txt

I'm just curious, that's all....

R

[superflexible]

The letters d and u and the slash help make the format unique, i.e. no user is likely to already have such files which could be mistaken as timestamp encoded.