Is There Any Time?

i wanted to ask you something else about aristotle's definition of time as a number. He sometimes seems to talk as if the only way there can be time is if there is some soul or mind to do the measuring. What i think he should have realized is that if there were no conscious beings in the universe, there would be no opportunity for counting. But there still might be something which had the ability to be counted,. just the way that a visible thing could be visible even if there was no one around to see it. Stages of growing cold could be counted as well.