Flexible restart write times (restart_fh)

[NickSzapiro-NOAA]

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• Short (1 sentence) summary of your PR:
  Enable writing forecast hour defined restarts ("restart_fh") as comma-delimited floating point forecast hours in UFS configure component attributes
• Developer(s):
  Nick Szapiro, Denise Worthen, & Jun Wang
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• Please copy the PR test results link or provide a summary of testing completed below.
  Testing with cpld_control_gfsv17 confirms that restarts are b4b when (1) sharing common times with RESTART_N and (2) instead of RESTART_N. See Flexible restart write times (restart_fh) for med, ocn, ice, wav ufs-community/ufs-weather-model#2419
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This PR enables writing forecast hour defined restarts ("restart_fh") in the same way as space-delimited floating point forecast hours in model_configure attributes, like restart_fh: 0.25 2.5 6 17 24. The implementation builds on current restart_fh in MOM6 for CMEPS, MOM6, and CICE to have option of forecast hour restarts in addition to existing functionality. Restart writes are triggered when input restart_fh forecast hours are evenly divisible by a component's timestep (internally compared in units of integer seconds) and skipped otherwise.

[NickSzapiro-NOAA]

There was an idea to set restart_fh attribute in UFS driver, but ESMF_ConfigSetAttribute and NUOPC_CompAttributeSet are for characters and integers