Merge pull request #263 from drigz/avoid-simtime-crash

simtime: use time=0 by default

Author: Juan Ignacio Ubeira

rosjava/src/main/java/org/ros/time/ClockTopicTimeProvider.java

@@ -57,7 +57,12 @@ public Subscriber<rosgraph_msgs.Clock> getSubscriber() {
 
   @Override
   public Time getCurrentTime() {
-    Preconditions.checkNotNull(clock);
+    // When using simulation time, the ROS Time API will return time=0 until it has received a
+    // message from the /clock topic.
+    if (clock == null) {
+      return new Time();
+    }
+
     synchronized (mutex) {
       return new Time(clock.getClock());
     }