Better time or better timing

If you mean 1400 hours = 2 PM, as in "1400 would be a better time to meet" then you want "time".

I can't think of any context in which you would use "timing" with the indefinite article. Perhaps abbied can.

Thanks

"Timing" can also mean (Merriam Webster)
a : placement or occurrence in time {the timing of the sale couldn't have been better}
b : the ability to select the precise moment for doing something for optimum effect {a boxer with impeccable timing}

Regarding the sense of "to measure how long it takes for something to happen or for someone to do something"--
Jack Mann, sports editor for Newsday
>once assigned reporters to interview track fans who carried their own stopwatches so he could write the headline: "These Are the Souls Who Time Men's Tries."

Non-Americans will need to be told, and some Americans will need to be reminded, that "These are the times that try men's souls" was the first line of The Crisis #1, the first of a series of pamphlets by the revolutionary agitator-propagandist Thomas Paine. The first one came out during the darkest days of the American Revolutionary War.

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