An error is reported when the consul --version command is executed.

[lillianokok]

When the 1.18.2 version is used, an error is reported when the consul --version and consul -h commands are executed after the installation. The error information is as follows:
[root@localhost -]#consul -h
Fatal error with internal time set; check makefile for build date 0001-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC parsing time "" as "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00": cannot parse "" as "2006"

Usage: consul [--version] [--help] []

Available commands are:
acl Interact with Consul's ACLs
agent Runs a Consul agent
catalog Interact with the catalog
Config Interact with Consul's Centralized Configurations
connect Interact with Consul Connect

[root@localhost -]#consul --version
parsing time "" as "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00": cannot parse "" as "2006"

[vijayraghav-io]

This will happen if source code is downloaded and consul binary is built from it without cloning git repo, as the git commit hash is not available in this case, the builddate would be empty and hence version info is not available.

Try this ->
git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/consul.git
git checkout 9fc827c