While calculating the total time, we often ignore the propagation delay.
The reason is in packet switching, transmission delay dominates over propagation delay.
This is because each packet is transmitted over the link at each hop.
refer this :
https://www.gatevidyalay.com/packet-switching-switching-in-computer-networks/#:~:text=While%20calculating%20the%20total%20time,the%20link%20at%20each%20hop.