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Time isn't a tangible thing. It can't be stopped, or effected in anyway. It has no source, no limit. Wasn't created and can't be destroyed. It's the only known "Thing" that has been and will always be. Everything in the universe revolves around time because everything but time can live, die, or be destroyed with enough force.
So if it answers your question the Universe came after time. Time existed before "All" and was given it's role based on Human assumptions and theories.
There is no evidence that time has always been and will always be in existence. The value of time was developed by humans as a measurement, it's simply a concept. It's not something that truly exists like matter, gravity, anti-matter, etc. Since it's a concept made by mankind to measure the age of things in our own way, then time itself does have a beginning, and possibly an end. Arguably, you can say time started the day the first human conceived the concept of time, creating the first sun clock, or the first calendar. However, as we learned more about the big bang, it can be argued that time started at the very moment of the big bang.
As everything comes to an end, as the universe dies off and the last star loses its light is the moment when nothing more happens, when the concept of time to measure all existence is no longer useful. Its at that point that you can say time will come to an end, as the concept will be dead and irrelevant. Since according to modern science, it is impossible to travel back in time, only forwards, you can simply just reverse time to continue on existence. However, science believes the Big Crunch isn't the end of everything, as the Big Bang can simply repeat itself once more, creating a new universe and with it, time starts up once more.