expression, godan verb (-ru)
crow at dawn; mark the dawn
Fixed expression for a rooster or similar bird crowing at daybreak; also used poetically for the arrival of dawn. The verb 作る here carries a sense of 'creating' or 'marking' the moment.
鶏が時を作る声で目が覚めた。
I woke up to the sound of a rooster crowing at dawn.
夜明けとともに、どこかで時を
With daybreak, I heard a bird somewhere crowing to mark the dawn.