[mpas-developers] MPAS time manager

[Michael Duda]

Hi, All.

We're finally finishing up a first cut at the MPAS time manager
module, and to proceed with implementation in the trunk, I though
we might first create a branch of the trunk and add the new time
manager code to this branch. Then, we could convert all cores in
that branch to use the new time manager for tracking simulation
start time, end time, output interval, restart interval, and
restart time. If this implementation looks alright to everyone, we
could then merge the branch back to the trunk. 

We can certainly decide on a per-dycore basis, but it might not be
a bad idea to standardize on a format for specifying, e.g.,
simulation starting and ending times. For example, we could choose
to specify separate integer values for start_year, start_month,
start_day, etc., or we could specify start_time as a date string.
Are there any strong preferences for date/time formats in the
namelist.input file?

Cheers,
Michael