Hi

ROS is using many boost libs, but has his own time/duration/.. implentation
Would it be possible to add at least a convertion funtion to the boost
time classes

like:

boost::posix_time::ptime  rostime2ptime_utc(const ros::Time &t) {
    using namespace boost::posix_time;
    typedef boost::date_time::subsecond_duration<time_duration,1000000000>
nanoseconds;
    boost::gregorian::date d(1970, boost::gregorian::Jan, 1);
    ptime  t_utc(d, seconds(t.sec) + nanoseconds(t.nsec));
    return t_utc;
}

boost::posix_time::ptime  rostime2ptime_local(const ros::Time &t) {
    using namespace boost::posix_time;
    ptime t_utc = rostime2ptime_utc(t);
    ptime t_local =
boost::date_time::c_local_adjustor<ptime>::utc_to_local(t_utc);
    return t_local;
}

Greetings
Markus