Bergson held chronological time, time measured and divided into units, as a largely misleading human convention.
Time is the sequential chronological time that we are familiar with.
A man born in 1900 who dies in 1970 is a prisoner of those seventy years of chronological time.
Therefore, physically, he could not be part of any other chronological time whether it was 1890 or 2190.
The first (chapters 1-11) broadly follows the story fragmented between characters, but in a single chronological time in 1943.
The former refers to numeric, or chronological, time.
A short evolutionary time does not necessarily mean a short chronological time.
It's hard to think about Saturday night without realizing that chronological time itself is something of an anachronism these days.
In mere chronological time, eleven Earth years.
Each plane emerges from an earlier plane through the evolutionary process, which takes place in chronological time.