A relational approach can also be applied to time, with, for instance, the implication that there was no time before the first event.  See also René Descartes Philosophy of space and time Spacetime 
An absolute approach can also be applied to time, with, for instance, the implication that there might have been vast epochs of time before the first event. Physics and Metaphysics: Theories of Space and Time by Jennifer Trusted, Routledge, 1991 ISBN 0-415-05948-8. See also René Descartes Philosophy of space and time Spacetime References
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