The Bible leaves it to us to determine, if we are interested, how long God's first "week" of creation takes; and we've learned very conclusively that our universe is nearly 14 billion years old and our earth 4-1/2 billion. Our duty is not, as you put it, to constrain God but rather to understand and then respond to Him.
One could argue that in Genesis, every ‘day’ ends with ‘and the evening and the morning were the nth day’ closing out that ‘day’.
Every day save one.
That’s the seventh day, the day The Creator rested.
That day isn’t over, He is still on vacation, which explains a lot about the current condition of humanity and the planet...