This paper establishes a minimal structural definition of time without introducing time as a primitive or appealing to metric geometry, measure, probability, or dynamical postulates. Starting from a phase–unrestricted scaffold consisting of a configuration space, local admissible variation domains, and a second–variation datum with its canonical antisymmetric sector, we show that no strict order on states is determined at this level. Time is instead defined as the strict partial order induced on regimes admitting compatible oriented cone data relative to the antisymmetric sector together with a cone–stable concatenative reachability structure. Under these minimal hypotheses, the induced relation is proved to be irreflexive, transitive, asymmetric, and therefore noncyclic, with all order properties derived as theorems. The analysis isolates the exact structural roles of pointedness, cone stability, concatenation, and antisymmetric nontriviality, establishing time as a regime property rather than a background parameter.
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