Nope, when it's gone it's gone, and what is to come is a mystery.
Along with the weather time rules the human roost.
No political extremist can battle it and beat it.
We don't run time.
Time runs us.
Mind you, when you're a kid time seems to go ever so slowly ... and when you've crossed time's bridge into your '60s it seems to kind of speed up.
As a child, Christmas Day and the presents it delivers take an eternity to arrive.
When you're my age it arrives with the pace of an F1 race car.
"Hang on," I angrily and wearily tell that odd chap called Father Time. "I haven't finished half the Christmas shopping yet."
Used to be I'd say "Oh I'm counting down the days" ... now it's more like "I'm counting down the hours".
No wonder the rugby seems to go so fast.
And no wonder some coaches would prefer to see half-time to go a bit longer to try to get the message through that tackling is a very effective way to stop the opposing player's try-line ambitions ... and that kicking the ball means they will then have possession.
Time is never selective.
You either have a good time or a bad time.
You either have enough of it or you run out of it.
Unless you do possess the ability to swing it around as that evolving time lord Doctor Who does.
At this point I was going to inject that silly "knock" joke where one answers "doctor" and of course the person on the other side of the door replies ... we know the rest.
But injecting that would be a waste of time as it's all too obvious.
Crikey, in the time it took me to write those last few lines I could have written something sensible.
So yes, the good Doctor Who is set to return in the latest series and for the chap who so seriously plays this latest incarnation of the TL (time lord) it is the last time.
Yep, Peter Capaldi (those eyes! those eyes!) decided to flag the part at the conclusion of the series we are yet to see.
Which is a shame because in facial tones he is the closest yet to the very first doc, William Hartnell.
They both have the grim looks, the frowning faces and the inquisitive eyes.
So the time for the start of his final stint at the helm of the Tardis is 7.30pm next Monday on Prime.
While you see him at that helm, pursuing mischievous aliens or malevolent mutants, he will actually be just waking up at his home in Blighty ... or maybe he's on vacation somewhere in the Caribbean.
For the following hour he defies time as he is there on a screen, as bright as day, but he is now far, far away and never going back there.
Time has moved on for Pete, but for Doctor Who fans it's only just starting.
● Doctor Who, Prime at 7.30pm on Monday: Peter Capaldi, who took it on in 2014, is the 12th actor to play the time lord since William Hartnell kicked things off in 1963.
That's a long time.
That's a lot of stories.
That's a lot of time travel.
ON THE BOX
● Antiques Roadshow, Prime at 7.30pm Saturday: Many years back I knew two chaps who would religiously scour the early-morning garage sales across the town of a Saturday.
They were not seeking anything specific, nor were they too bothered about the prices.
They were seeking treasure, and on at least one occasion one of the lads uncovered a large, and clearly old, china bowl which he paid a fiver for ... and it was later valued around $120.
Which is where this intriguing show comes in, as one of the "what's it worth?" folks who front up here bought an interesting-looking magazine rack for a couple of quid only to discover it turned out to be the work of a noted Italian designer.
One person's junk is another person's treasure, as they say.
● Soundbreaking, Prime at 8.30pm Easter Sunday: Music has certainly seen the benefits of time.
Those very early recordings were pretty simple and standard things given they were generally recorded in one take, on one basic track and in a studio where the concept of acoustics had yet to be fully investigated.
Oh how it changed as time ticked by, and this documentary is a sharp and interesting look at the sounds which began to be made ... sounds that could not be created without the mechanics of a fully equipped studio.
Among those showing us through this musically complex world are Paul McCartney, Elton John and Stevie Nicks.
