STAGE creates bag files with a wrong timestamp

asked 2012-12-24 04:59:05 -0500

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updated 2012-12-24 05:00:23 -0500

hello everyone
in these days, i've tried to create bag files by recording messages generated by STAGE robot simulator.
The problem is that every bag file generated has a timestamp associated to the date of linux's birth (january 1st, 1970). I tried twice and I got same problem. This doesn't happen if i generate a custom topic, write on it by my code and store messages in a bag file. in this case, bag file has a correct timestamp.

could you tell me how to force system to write properly timestamps for bags generated by STAGE?
thanks for support.

answered 2012-12-24 09:20:46 -0500

joq
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updated 2012-12-24 09:22:14 -0500

Stage generates simulated time, which begins at zero (Jan. 1, 1970).

I don't know how to change that.

If you run another node in the same ROS graph with /use_sim_time set, it should generate compatible timestamps with the messages stage publishes.

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As Jack mentions the intended behavior is to have all nodes running with /use_sim_time. This allows everything to remain syncronized even if the sim runs faster or slower than real time.

tfoote ( 2012-12-25 14:41:12 -0500 )edit

thanks for your answer. i started roscore, then i wrote
rosparam set /use_sim_time true.
Then i wrote
rosbag play --clock bag1.bag bag2.bag
nothing happened. execution of first bag continues to last 40 years since his 1970 timestamp. maybe i mistooke somewhere. do u know where?

ubisum ( 2012-12-26 03:57:16 -0500 )edit

moreover: how to tell STAGE node to run with /use_sim_time?

ubisum ( 2012-12-26 04:03:44 -0500 )edit

Set the /use_sim_time parameter before running Stage. Running rosbag with the --clock option causes it to publish the /clock topic, not what you want when running Stage.