Yet those Jewish laws are not considered commemorative of the Exodus. We must therefore distinguish between the content of Shabbos that pertains to Creation, and the element of sanctity of time and holy convocation of Shabbos, which are rooted in the Exodus from Egypt. The ability for humans to sanctify and elevate time to a holy state is an ability that Israel received at the Exodus specifically. It must be, then, that the ability to declare a holy convocation derives its power from the Exodus. It probably would be reasonable to assert that Time does not exist at all as regards this particular universe.
Time is both the framework for change and movement, and the derivative thereof.
The movement of the sun, the burning of a candle, the unwinding of a spring, and the disintegration of an atom are all phenomena of Time and yardsticks thereof. Various entities in the universe contain energy in one form or another. The candle has carbon fuel capable of burning, the spring in the wristwatch has potential energy should it be wound up, and atoms have energy binding their segments together. As any process takes place, energy is released and the object containing that energy sputters out, becoming totally inanimate. The process of Time, then, especially as it deals with the inanimate, is the slow conversion of a dynamic and vigorous universe to a frozen and lifeless staticum.