Cool! But you're comparing apples with oranges.

Besides which, your solution contains bugs.

Update:Dataset removed as it seems that PM cannot handle it. Despite that it appeared fine in preview.

If you want the data set which I observed produces this incorrect output (note the second last range is invalid) I can email it to you.:

C:\test>junk88 935755.dat
[
  ["010005", "010022", 41],
  ["010023", "012359", 0],
  ["020000", "022359", 0],
  ["030000", "032359", 0],
  ["040000", "042359", 0],
  ["050000", "052359", 0],
  ["060000", "062359", 0],
  ["070000", "072359", 0],
  ["080000", "082359", 0],
  ["090000", "092359", 0],
  [100000, 102359, 0],
  [110000, 112359, 0],
  [120000, 122359, 0],
  [130000, 132359, 0],
  [140000, 142359, 0],
  [150000, 152359, 0],
  [160000, 162359, 0],
  [170000, 172359, 0],
  [180000, 182359, 0],
  [190000, 192359, 0],
  [200000, 202359, 0],
  [210000, 212359, 0],
  [220000, 222359, 0],
  [230000, 232359, 0],
  [240000, 242359, 0],
  [250000, 252359, 0],
  [260000, 262359, 0],
  [270000, 272359, 0],
  [280000, 282359, 0],
  [290000, 292359, 0],
  [300000, 302359, 0],
  [310000, 312356, 0],
  [312357, 312356, 52],
  [312357, 312359, 27],
]

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Instead of this outptu:

C:\test>935755 935755.dat
[
  ["010005", "010022", 41],
  ["010023", "012359", 0],
  ["020000", "022359", 0],
  ["030000", "032359", 0],
  ["040000", "042359", 0],
  ["050000", "052359", 0],
  ["060000", "062359", 0],
  ["070000", "072359", 0],
  ["080000", "082359", 0],
  ["090000", "092359", 0],
  [100000, 102359, 0],
  [110000, 112359, 0],
  [120000, 121942, 0],
  [121943, 122359, 0],
  [130000, 132359, 0],
  [140000, 142359, 0],
  [150000, 152359, 0],
  [160000, 162359, 0],
  [170000, 172359, 0],
  [180000, 182359, 0],
  [190000, 192359, 0],
  [200000, 202359, 0],
  [210000, 211659, 0],
  [211700, 211741, 0],
  [211742, 212359, 0],
  [220000, 222359, 0],
  [230000, 232359, 0],
  [240000, 242359, 0],
  [250000, 252359, 0],
  [260000, 262359, 0],
  [270000, 272359, 0],
  [280000, 282355, 0],
  [282356, 282359, 0],
  [290000, 292359, 0],
  [300000, 300936, 0],
  [300937, 302359, 0],
  [310000, 311315, 0],
  [311316, 312042, 0],
  [312043, 312159, 0],
  [312200, 312356, 0],
  [312357, 312359, 27],
]

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In reply to Re^7: Date Array Convolution by BrowserUk
in thread Date Array Convolution by alanonymous

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