Re: HDF5 bitfields...

Hi John,

> A question has come up about how a "time" data type is stored.
    I don't currently recomend using the time datatype, it's got a few bugs
in it and doesn't do type conversion the way we want them to.

> The "Object Modification Date and Time" messsage uses a 4-byte int, 
> meaning "#secs since 1970". Is that the same as the "time" data type?
    The format is basically the same, although they are pretty different parts
of the file.

    Quincey