7. Known Limitations

In this section, we list some features that are not currently supported. If you think that some of these should be included in the specifications, please contact us.

7.1. Timestamps with rollover

In Photon-HDF5 timestamps are always signed 64 bit integers. Thanks to compression, there is no size penalty compared to 32 bit integers. Most timestamping hardware produce a timestamp with 24 or 32 bits and a rollover flag in order to compute the full “unwrapped” timestamp. Saving timestamps with a separate rollover information is not currently supported, therefore the rollover correction must be computed before saving data in a Photon-HDF5 file.

Timestamps with rollover may be supported in a future version of Photon-HDF5.