Is time relevant

Oringinally posted at http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=23909713&post=true
Take this post for example. You could be reading this anytime form now. So is future time irrelevant to this post, or is it the only time that is relevant. If it could be any future time then maybe all points in time are irrelevant but time itself is relevant. What does this mean for us? I'm not sure except that I have not thought enough about time and if you have please share your thoughts.

I know that when I look at a plant, I often see it in many forms, at many points in time, for example I see my Dracaena draco, http://www.mediterraneangardensociety.org/plants/Dracaena.draco.cfm, as the plant it is now, as a seddling and as a mature specimum ten years from now. This confirms that it possible to envisage life without linear time, life without a series of points on a line. Just like a candle graph has more detail than a line graph, the candle letting you move around within the single point on a line; maybe we could perceive life more like that.