Time does not exist

.....but 'concepts' are all 'thinkers' ever have !

You have concepts or you are dead.

Even a mirage is real, it just isn't what we think it is so if 'Time' has any referent at all (and it must or the question and answers make no sense) it exists.

But a mirage only applies to water. Have you ever seen a mirage?
I was stationed in a desert in Morocco, and never saw one. We saw lots of sand storms.

I saw one at sea. You can see the mirage of Table mountain before you see Table Mountain itself, and for a brief period there's both, one on top of the other.

I also did the cablecar trip to the top of Table Mountain, but did not see the mirage when I was there. Loved our visit to Cape Town. The climate felt like San Francisco. Visited the winery, the university, and the Victoria and Alfred waterfront restaurant for dinner. Good memories of my trip to South Africa that included a safari.

I didn't do a cable car trip, I approached Capetown by sea, the mirage pops over the horizon before the real thing.

All you did is say X isn't time but Y is.