and an excellent question it is. i have a very hard time thinking of time as a "thing." time, it seems, is simply a way to measure duration. it is sort of like saying "miles per hour" is a thing, in and of itself. really, it is not. it is simply a measurement.but that raises the question of whether time is a "thing" to be created or an aspect of reality that God enjoyed pre-creation.
for example, I do not believe God created "inches" or "meters." there, in reality, is no such thing.
TK