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add optional automatic time field population to ingest

Open tmc opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

Having a time field automatically populated with ingestion time if missing would be convenient.

tmc avatar Sep 01 '19 23:09 tmc

I'm conflicted on this. On the one hand, timestamps are not required (or are not required to be named "time") but they are generally useful to have in most datasets.

I think adding a flag that says "add timestamp if missing" would be a good compromise, but then most people probably wouldn't realize that the flag exists. OTH, having this be default behavior can lead to confusing situations

Thoughts?

okayzed avatar Sep 02 '19 13:09 okayzed