[h5md-user] Make "time" optional?

[Konrad Hinsen]

Hi everyone,

Now that I have started to use H5MD seriously, I also start to notice
problems with it. One of them is the obligatory presence of a "time"
dataset. I want to store a Monte-Carlo trajectory which consists of a
sequence of configurations, but without any associated time values.
If I want to respect the H5MD specification, I have to make up
numbers, which is not a good habit to take.

Is there any reason why "time" was made obligatory?

Konrad.
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Konrad Hinsen
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