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Change format in which event timestamps are written to HDF5 files. Instead of a single float64 MJD value which has ~µs precision, the CTAO high precision time format is used now. This stores the timestamp as two uint32 values: seconds and quarter nanoseconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00.0 TAI.

This only affects the storage format and the precision, the in-memory API is unchanged as it relies on astropy.time.Time and values are converted when reading/writing from/to HDF5.