Did one of your pets ever die on you? You don't need clocks to suffer the consequences of time.
I think you are conflating time itself and measuring it (clocks).
I think you are conflating time itself and measuring it (clocks).
edit: My cat died. Now, I can say that I moved house after my cat died, that I got my car before my cat died, or that I met Bill around the time my cat died. Dead pets create time.
You might as well say that time does everything, but that's mistaking the way you keep track of a thing with the thing itself. Time typed this comment.
In Buddhism there is no birth, no death. Both are illusions.