From 02a3ba39b59dd0aeec7204f5f75d276e67490ce5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kai Bao <kai.bao@sintef.no>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 11:12:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] adding a initialStep() function to SimulatorTimer

to indicate if the current step is the inital step.
---
 opm/simulators/timestepping/SimulatorTimer.cpp | 6 ++++++
 opm/simulators/timestepping/SimulatorTimer.hpp | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/opm/simulators/timestepping/SimulatorTimer.cpp b/opm/simulators/timestepping/SimulatorTimer.cpp
index 66e8e2ffe..df3140428 100644
--- a/opm/simulators/timestepping/SimulatorTimer.cpp
+++ b/opm/simulators/timestepping/SimulatorTimer.cpp
@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ namespace Opm
         start_date_ = start_time.date();
     }
 
+    /// Whether the current step is the first step.
+    bool SimulatorTimer::initialStep() const
+    {
+        return (current_step_ == 0);
+    }
+
     /// Total number of steps.
     int SimulatorTimer::numSteps() const
     {
diff --git a/opm/simulators/timestepping/SimulatorTimer.hpp b/opm/simulators/timestepping/SimulatorTimer.hpp
index 4db760930..52494a391 100644
--- a/opm/simulators/timestepping/SimulatorTimer.hpp
+++ b/opm/simulators/timestepping/SimulatorTimer.hpp
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ namespace Opm
         /// Use the SimulatorTimer as a shim around opm-parser's Opm::TimeMap
         void init(TimeMapConstPtr timeMap, size_t report_step = 0);
 
+        /// Whether the current step is the first step.
+        bool initialStep() const;
+
         /// Total number of steps.
         int numSteps() const;