[netcdfgroup] netcdfgroup Digest, Vol 45, Issue 1

[Quincey Koziol]

Hi Ed,

On Jan 11, 2008, at 1:00 PM, netcdfgroup-request at unidata.ucar.edu wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:55:37 -0700
> From: Ed Hartnett <ed at unidata.ucar.edu>
> Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] netCDF4 file bit-for-bit reproducibility?
> To: Charlie Zender <zender at uci.edu>
> Cc: netcdfgroup at unidata.ucar.edu
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> Charlie Zender <zender at uci.edu> writes:
>
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>>> I'm afraid there is nothing I can do at the netCDF-4 level to change
>>> that.
>>
>> What about trying the procedure that Quincey suggests?
>>
>> Charlie
>> --  
>
> This would break the order of variables and dimensions, which is a key
> piece of the netCDF API.

	HDF5 doesn't use any time information for tracking the creation order  
of objects in group or attributes on objects.  I tried to go that way  
initially, but gave up on it last summer.  So, it is safe to disable  
the time tracking in netCDF-4 and keep the creation order feature.

	Quincey