20031124: A simple question : milliseconds ?

>From: Bernard Mendiburu <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCLA
>Keywords: 200311250001.hAP01xEH008098 IDV timestamp

Hi Bernard-

>Just a simple question, with no coding included ;-)

Well, unfortunately, the answer is not so simple.

>Is it possible to use miliseconds-accurate time steps ?

Sort of.

>vis5D timesteps are only second-accurate.

It's my understanding that Vis5D times are in seconds since
1900-01-00. If you put in a decimal value, does it not
work?

>NetCDF file handles miliseconds, isn't it ?

Yes.

The problem in the IDV is that the time formatter is set to
only print out time as HH:MM:SS by default.  You can have
times that are in milliseconds, but the string representation
will not show that.  There is a way that you can change
the default format programatically, but there is no interface
into the IDV to allow the user to do this.  I'll think about
this a bit more to see what we can come up with.  I just tried
a test and was able to set the formatting so you could see
milliseconds.  Now, I just have to figure out how to bubble
that up to the user and what ramifications that would have.

BTW, I like the 3D images on your examples page.  How did
you create those?

Don Murray