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Time's spreadsheet, insisting that one thing happened before another whether you like it or not.
means The arrangement of events in the order they actually occurred, plus the science of dating them.
from From Greek khronos (time) plus logia (study), so literally the study of time's pecking order.
Father timeGreek Khronos personified time itself, scythe and all.
Dating gameArchaeologists call event-ordering relative chronology, no calendar required.
Movie trickReverse chronology powers films like Memento and Irreversible.