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

this avoids using "l" which is hard to distinguish from 1, | and I
depending on the font in use

these occur du to the sum of l' not contribution when l' < 0 would be
required