Since it is now August 2002, I feel compelled to quote from the Martian Chronicles:

"The night was dark. The moons had gone down. Starlight twinkled on the empty highway where now there was not a sound, no car, no person, nothing. And it remained that way all the rest of the cool dark night."

Ah, yes...but that is from an early edition of Martian Chronicles. Later year on new revised editions, alas!
Same month? I don't have a copy at hand.

August 2002: Night Meeting

"There was smell of Time in the air tonight. He smiled and turned the fancy in his mind. There was a thought. What did Time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people."

I gave away my last new edition of Martian Chronicles but I remember the years (that is to say, the Chronicles ) beginning around 2018-2020 or thereabouts, vs. 1999 in older editions.
Whose got a new editon and an old edition out there, at the same time, to compare?

August 2002: Night Meeting

"And if you wondered what Time sounded like it sounded like water running in a dark cave and voices crying and dirt dropping down upon hollow box lids, and rain."

August 2002: Night Meeting

"And, going further, what did Time look like? Time looked like snow dropping silently into a black room or it looked like a silent film in an ancient theater, one hundred billion faces falling like those New Year balloons, down and down into nothing."