But Lynds points out, "If the universe were frozen static at such an instant, this would be a precise static instant of time -- time would be a physical quantity." Consequently Lynds says that it's due to nature's very exclusion of a time as a fundamental physical quantity, that time as it is measured in physics, or relative interval, and as such, motion and physical continuity are possible in the first instance. I dunno.... I kinda like this part.
We measure time by events, but events don't cause time--Causality doesn't imply time, just event order.