"human construct" What exactly do you mean by that PF? Time is certainly perceived by other animals so it might be more accurately said to be part of the phylogenic memory bequeathed to us by Evolution, in other words the living through time is what we do.
Having said that the subjective perception of time passing can be altered for good Evolutionary reasons, for instance in situations of intense physical danger time seems to slow right down as the nervous system goes into hyper-drive to avert or minimise damage. Though the processing can be accelerated and maybe decelerated movement and related perception is quantised in 1/10th(ish) of a second units, so time is intrinsic to humans and other animals.
The Universe evolves in time; it becomes, remove the time and nothing happens.

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