Add member function in MPI communicator to check if time-parallel is enable

Issue/feature addressed

Add a new member function in the MPI communicator class to make more convenient to check if time-parallelism is used.

This MR is partially split from !1613 (merged)

Proposed solution

Implementation

Tests

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Checklist

• [ ] Functions and classes, or changes to them, are documented.
• [ ] User guide/documentation is updated.
• Changelog is updated.
• [ ] Suitable tests added for new functionality.
• Contributed code is correctly formatted. (See the contributing guidelines).
• [ ] License added to any new files.
• No extraneous files have been added (e.g. compiler output or test data files).