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If you use Time(0) construction it asks for the "latest valid time". If you stop publishing a transform the transform still exists at the older time and tf will return it.

It is good practice to bounds check the timestamp of the returned transform if there is some expected valid range. You can see it through listener.getLatestCommonTime

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