The notion of time can be a daunting task as philosophers and scientists have been deliberating on its real nature since the dawn of civilization. Unquestionably the time taken to mull over this notion was well spent as a breakthrough occurred when it was realized what should be the answer to the question - how do we measure motion? Surprisingly, the answer is, with motion. The conventional thinking has always been that motion is measured in terms of the ratio distance over time, and consequently time was considered to be a fundamental concept, while motion, a derived one. So a reversal of the conventional thinking was in need to be. Why? Because motion is that which is observed, and time is a mental construct. Because in a universe with no motion, time is a useless concept. From that perspective, a clock is then a device with internal moving parts (IMPs) that conveniently facilitates the measuring of motion. You need motion to measure motion – this was the major breakthrough. Even though a new thinking about time won’t necessarily change any of the fundamental equations of physics already established, it prompts us to revise the old question: is time real or is it an illusion? As Einstein once put it: “The separation between past, present and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.” As a bonus prize, we demonstrate at a fundamental level that in Special Relativity (SR) time dilation and length contraction are necessarily two sides of the same coin.