Cache validation ignore pyaerocom version; use mtime instead of ctime #1243
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Change Summary
The cache validation of ungridded data was using the pyaercom_version to identify invalid caches. Since caches and pyaerocom_version are independent, this is now only logged, but no longer used to invalidate caches.
In addition, cache validation was using ctime to identify newest files, but ctime is metadata change time, i.e. when permissions/ownerships of data changed last. This has been changed to mtime which is data modification time.
Related issue number
fixes #1242
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