Re: [h5md-user] Finalization of units module

[Pierre de Buyl]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:39:51PM -0500, Peter Colberg wrote:
> Following external pressure to publish or perish, I revised the units
> module by defining the "SI" unit system to encompass SI base units,
> SI derived units, and SI prefixes [1].
> 
> [1] http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/general.html
> 
> I also updated the test case in lua-units [2].
> 
> [2] http://git.colberg.org/lua-units/tree/examples/h5md.lua
> 
> The solution will make everybody unhappy. For the use of non-SI units,
> the unit attribute can still be written using a scalar prefix and an
> SI unit. Alternatively, the values can be converted to an SI unit
> using the cv_convert_* functions [3] of the udunits2 library.
> 
> [3] 
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/udunits/udunits-2.2.2/doc/udunits/udunits2lib.html#Value-Conversion

Hi Peter,

Thanks a lot! I don't see how one could be unhappy? Starting with SI seems the
most sensible thing to do :-)

'units' seems set, I'll take a look tomorrow indeed :-)

Pierre