Some languages tell time through the magnitude of the moment

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languages use specific vocabulary for interpreting the world around us. And with time, there are two general categories with which this is done.

There is time in terms distance, as in crossing an area, and time in terms of volume as in a space being filled.

A study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology sought to test whether people who think about time with distance or volume measurements have a better sense of how much time has passed.

To measure this, they had one group watch a line grow across a screen and a 2nd group 
watch a container being filled, the first, a measure of time as distance and the second, a measure of time as volume.

The results showed that subjects were equally matched when playing to their linguistic strengths. When the measurement was conducted in the same dimension as their language.

So indeed some languages do interpret time through the magnitude of the moment

English uses physical distances to express a measure of time.
We say “a short break” or “a long movie.” Describing the passage of time is a measurable distance.

Whereas in languages like Greek and Spanish, time is marked with terms that refer to volume. The translation would be: "a small break" or "a big movie