Time is an illusion for the simple fact that "Energy cannot be created or destroyed" which means that energy is eternal, there is no beginning and no end therefore time cannot start nor end so there is no point of reference. When its midnight you know that in 50% of a days time you will see light instead of darkness, two points of reference.
I agree with you but it makes you wonder how the universe was created or is it just something that does not need this illusion of time as a variable; it just exists.
As Lauryn Hill says....it is what is
Or
Everything is everything