"She Don't Care About Time" is a song by American folk rock band The Byrds released on October 29, 1965 as the B-side of Turn! Turn! Turn!. The song was written by The Byrds' main songwriter between 1964 and early 1966, Gene Clark. "She Don't Care About Time" was recorded during sessions for the group's second album Turn! Turn! Turn!. The song is on most of the band's hits compilations.

As was true with the Byrds' first album, the majority of group-penned compositions on "Turn! Turn! Turn!" were written by Gene Clark. The composition's lyrics have been well cited for their complexity by many who have been affiliated with the group. In particular Johnny Rogan stated in his biography Timeless Flight that the elaboration of the lyrics were in anticipation of Clark's later work and were a "fascinating apotheosis in which naturalistic detail and abstraction coalesced". Musically, the recording featured a guitar solo patterned after by Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring". The Byrds' recording of "Mr. Tambourine Man" opens with a similar and distinctive, Bach-inspired guitar riff played by Jim McGuinn.

The previously unreleased first recording of the song appears on The Byrds box set. It is played at a much faster tempo with Clark performing a harmonica solo and McGuinn's guitar playing being more dissonant. Other early versions have been known to feature the group's producer Terry Melcher, playing the piano. Although the track was released as single it was ultimately left off the album, along with the Dylanesque "The Day Walk (Never Before)" (also written by Clark). "The Day Walk (Never Before)" was left to languish in the Columbia tape vaults for more than 20 years.

This was one of two songs that The Beatles' George Harrison cited as inspiration for "If I Needed Someone". Upon the release of the Beatles' Rubber Soul album, he sent a letter to the group's publicist Derek Taylor, stating: "Tell Jim [McGuinn] and David [Crosby] that 'If I Needed Someone' is the riff from 'The Bells Of Rhymney' and the drumming from 'She Don't Care About Time', or my impression of it."

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