On the subject of time and gravity, I go by Bill Unruh`s statement;
' .. A more accurate way of summarizing the lessons of General Relativity is that gravity does not cause time to run differently in different places (e.g., faster far from the earth than near it). Gravity is the unequable flow of time from place to place. It is not that there are two separate phenomena, namely gravity and time and that the one, gravity, affects the other. Rather the theory states that the phenomena we usually ascribe to gravity are actually caused by time's flowing unequably from place to place...'
Time, Gravity, and Quantum Mechanics
W. G. Unruh
CIAR Cosmology Program
Dept. of Physics
University of B. C.
Vancouver, Canada V6T 2A6
arXiv:gr-qc/9312027v2 17 Dec 1993