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The time information should be added during the conversion from velodyne_msgs::VelodyneScan to sensor_msgs::PointCloud2, so you need to change the LiDAR driver.

The latest master of ros-drivers/velodyne repository seems to have the time information. I don't know what this "time" means, but this may be what you need.

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