  We analyze in situ measurements of solar wind velocity obtained by Advanced
Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft and Helios spacecraft during the years
1998-2012 and 1975-1983 respectively. The data belong to mainly solar cycle 23
(1996-2008) and solar cycle 21 (1976-1986) respectively. We use Directed
Horizontal Visibility graph (DHVg) algorithm and estimate a graph functional,
namely, the degree distance (D) as the Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD)
argument to understand time irreversibility of solar wind time series. We
estimate this degree distance irreversibility parameter for these time series
at different phases of solar activity cycle. Irreversibility parameter is first
established for known dynamical data and then applied for solar wind velocity
time series. It is observed that irreversibility in solar wind velocity
fluctuations show similar behaviour at 0.3 AU (Helios data) and 1 AU (ACE
data). Moreover it changes over the different phases of solar activity cycle.
