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Hey! I did a quick search and found that topic which might be of interest for you:

https://answers.ros.org/question/318536/understanding-rosbag-timestamps/

So the comment on the answer states that

"The rosbag writers and readers do not look at the header timestamp within the messages, and does not guarantee that messages are ordered by those timestamps."

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