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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="https://hpcforge.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pv-echam/pv-echam.git;a=tree;h=5f8410b1879178a4a114a279b8bd9463825e507d;hb=5f8410b1879178a4a114a279b8bd9463825e507d">https://hpcforge.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pv-echam/pv-echam.git;a=tree;h=5f8410b1879178a4a114a279b8bd9463825e507d;hb=5f8410b1879178a4a114a279b8bd9463825e507d</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Chris,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If you do as Ken says and use a numeric time, then ....<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">There is some very old code in that repo linked above which includes a JulianDayToText class. I used to use this in paraview to take netCDF times and convert
them to a string, then add this to my plots with a text source object in paraview which displayed the string.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The code is ancient, and you should not use the netCDF stuff as this was superseded some time back by the one in vtk/paraview. However the text source might
give you an idea of how to do what you want, (I just looked in my archive and saw this
<a href="ftp://ftp.cscs.ch/out/biddisco/netCDF/SO2-1950-2050-5yr-2.avi">ftp://ftp.cscs.ch/out/biddisco/netCDF/SO2-1950-2050-5yr-2.avi</a> which was made in 2009 and uses the date/time source to display a simple yyyy/mm/dd dormat time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">JB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> vtkusers [mailto:vtkusers-bounces@vtk.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Moreland, Kenneth<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 25 August 2014 14:13<br>
<b>To:</b> Chris Marsh; vtkusers@vtk.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [vtkusers] Timestep name<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Chris,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">In the pvd file, which is just an XML metadata file, you will see tags named DataSet that point to the vtu files. The DataSet tag supports a timestep attribute that takes a number
that represents the time value. These time values do not have to be integers and do not have to be regularly spaced.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">However, the timestep attribute does have to be a number. You will have to convert your time to some seconds/hours/days from some reference point.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">-Ken<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Kenneth Moreland<br>
Sandia National Laboratories<br>
email: <a href="mailto:kmorel@sandia.gov">kmorel@sandia.gov</a><br>
phone: (505) 844-8919<br>
web: <a href="http://www.sandia.gov/~kmorel">http://www.sandia.gov/~kmorel</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> vtkusers <<a href="mailto:vtkusers-bounces@vtk.org">vtkusers-bounces@vtk.org</a>>
on behalf of Chris Marsh <<a href="mailto:chris.marsh@usask.ca">chris.marsh@usask.ca</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 22, 2014 2:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:vtkusers@vtk.org">vtkusers@vtk.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [vtkusers] Timestep name</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#282828">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">I have a timeseries of data that I am saving to a set of vtu files. These load in paraview nicely and play as an animation. However,
each timestep corresponds to a date/time (e.g., Oct-01-2010 14:00:00) and I would like this to be displayed. For example, 'Timestep 758' isn't intuitive when dealing with realworld datetimes. </span><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#282828"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">I have tried making a pvd file, but it wasn't not clear how to rename a timestep. <br>
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