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What is timestamp? Why do we use both runname and timestamp (i.e., -t option) in some appion process?

Added by Anchi Cheng over 12 years ago. Updated over 12 years ago.

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03/01/2012
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Examples that use timestamp in naming their results are maxlikeAlignment; runCL2D and uploadExternalPackageRefinement.

Examples that does not have it are uploadFrealign and other refinement upload.

I thought the original idea is that runname is unique and repeating job submission with the same runname would mean that the old one is not useful and can be over-written. These python files that uses timestamp in the result file naming introduce -t with all its output contains the so-call timestamp.

I hoping to find out from developers why was this timestamp included in the code they develop and from users what its function is if runname is already unique. I am in the process of writing an appion script that involves first autopreparation, then manual step in ETOMO and at last upload step. I can't control ETOMO file names that well.

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