Re: [h5md-user] Make "time" optional?

[Olaf Lenz]

...and adding to that, can we also make the "step" optional? Weird as this may sound, we would also have to invent step numbers.

Olaf

Dr. rer. nat. Olaf Lenz
Institut für Computerphysik, Allmandring 3, D-70569 Stuttgart
Phone: +49.711.685.63607

Am 11.07.2014 16:09 schrieb "Konrad Hinsen" <address@hidden>:

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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