Different time zones between ros nodes
Browsing the ros::now() code I've seen that it returns the local time, if I'm not mistaken it can cause some issues between computers that are on different time zones.
For instance, a robot might be on UTC, but a developer computer might be on a different time zone, wouldn't ros message timestamps be messed up and cause strange behaviour.
Shouldn't ros::timestamps be in UTC?
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Your lab must be very large...
Mac
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2011-11-17 16:31:04 -0500
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Hehehe, the situation is that the robot system time is UTC in order to store the logs from different robots in differents places with the same time zone. But a developer computer might be in his local time zone, and I was wondering if that could case problems.
Victor Lopez
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2011-11-17 17:45:38 -0500
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Yes, that can cause trouble for many components of Linux or Unix, not just for ROS.
joq
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2011-11-18 03:10:18 -0500
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