no change but slightly more obvious code due to not using the
initializion values

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no longer assume that Cactus' out_dir is the same as the simulation name
used by simfactory

now consists of: Daniel Johnson, E. A. Huerta, Roland Haas, Debopam
Sanyal, Brockton Brendal

the only use is to make comparison easier since it is just a constant
offset in time