I use colons when indicating the ISO 8601[1] timestamp for stuff; it's much more readable with ':' than not, e.g. 2016-07-20T17:04:30Z vice 20160720T170430Z.
I also use them when naming stuff with hashes or UUIDs. Not having colons in filenames seems just weird to me.
Heck, even on Unix I'm annoyed that I can't simply escape slashes! It'd be nice to name files with the URLs they are taken from.
I also use them when naming stuff with hashes or UUIDs. Not having colons in filenames seems just weird to me.
Heck, even on Unix I'm annoyed that I can't simply escape slashes! It'd be nice to name files with the URLs they are taken from.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601