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Is it assigned by rosbag to reflect the time of recording?

Comments given here and here indicate that this is indeed the case.

Would it be reasonable to make inferences about the latency on the topic like this?

This seems reasonable, at least from the point of view of the rosbag instance that has recorded the messages.

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