The databases shown in the File panel's Selected files list show database cycles to indicate when databases are comprised of multiple time states. Cycles are shown by default because they can often be guessed from numbers embedded in the files that make up each time state in the database. When you open a time-varying database that was written in a file format that natively understands multiple time states, VisIt can show cycles, times, or both in the time state's name.
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Once you've chosen cycles, times, or both to be part of the information shown for each time state in a time-varying database, you can enter the selected type of time information into the Cycle/Time text field in order to change time states to the time state that closest matches the time state that you entered. That means that if you chose to display time in the name of a database time state, you can enter time into the Cycle/Time text field in order to change time states. figure shows what the Selected files list looks like when you've chosen different File panel time display options.