This is a convinient ROS pakcage for getting formated date-time strings after C++11 but before C++20.

Tested on Ubuntu 20.04 with ROS Noetic.

This package depends on date, an open-source time zone implementation. You need to install date in your system before using this package. The tested version is v3.0.1.

date itself depends on curl, so you need curl installed in your system.

To install date, use the following CMake sequence.

cd <date source root>
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DENABLE_DATE_TESTING=ON -DBUILD_TZ_LIB=ON ../
make -j4
make testit
sudo make install

Clone this package to your ROS working directory. Add date_utils as a dependency in the package.xml file. Add the library date_utils as a catkin component dependency to your own package's CMakeLists.txt.

find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS
  roscpp
  rospy
  date_utils
)

Make sure ${catkin_LIBRARIES} is in the list of target_link_libraries() for your own package.

Yaoyu Hu ([email protected])