One historical account describes time as measuring a renewed event by another renewed event, as when the duration of one day is related to another. Another classical philosophical definition relates time to the measure of motion.
Both link time with change, sequence or renewed occurrence. They differ in philosophical details, but neither makes the necessary being an event that acquires existence or new bodily conditions moment by moment.
Example: Before and after in a traveller's journey mark the order of created events. The temporal order of that journey should not be projected onto the eternal divine essence as bodily succession.