Does Time Truly Exist or Is It Just a Human Construct?

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Does time exist in the same sense that my chair physically exists. Or is time something we created to give reference to events?
 
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time doesn't exist like a chair, but it exists like lengths that can measure the dimensions of the chair. It's not just human, time must be for events to even occur in the first place.