H5Part development and discussion

[John Biddiscombe <biddisco AT cscs.ch>]

Discussing standard attributes...

I'd like to start the ball rolling by saying that we routinely use an 
attribute attached to the time step group which is called "TimeValue". 
This is a double precision value representing the actual time for the 
step in question. I'd very much like this to be documented somewhere as 
a 'convention' so that if and when others have need of the time, they 
use the same method.

JB

 //
 // Write out a TimeValue attribute for this step
 //
 h5part_int64_t attrib = H5PartWriteStepAttrib(
   this->H5FileId, "TimeValue", H5T_NATIVE_DOUBLE, &this->TimeValue, 1);

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