Time based partitioning of Thanos Store Gateway is the time range dynamic when using relative time ?

[fisabelle-lmi]

Hi!
This might be a silly question but while looking at the doc related to the time based partitioning of the store, I was under the impression that the following text

For example setting: --min-time=-6w & --max-time=-2w will make Thanos Store Gateway return metrics that fall within now - 6 weeks up to now - 2 weeks time range.

Implied that when the Thanos store is started, the store would be initialized with the --min-time=-6w and -max-time=-2w but that as the time goes by and as the storage backend is receiving more blocks from the Thanos sidecar, the actual Thanos store gateway time range would be dynamically moving so that its duration would stay the same but not its starting and ending point ? Is there any type of synchronisation permitting that ? Or is "now" in this context the "time of startup" rather than a dynamic notion of "now" ?

Thank you.
Frank

[fisabelle-lmi]

Testing seems to indicate that this is working as I expected, that is, the store time window is moving along as time passes.