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[[File:comictime.gif|link=The Order of the Stick|frame|Prophets have [[No Fourth Wall]] whatsoever.]]
{{quote|"In conclusion I would recommend to not get hung up on birthdays or aging."
|'''Pete Abrams''', author of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', on how much time has passed since the beginning of the story}}
{{quote|"Here's hoping for a few more decades! I'll get these jerks into college yet."
▲{{quote|"In conclusion I would recommend to not get hung up on birthdays or aging."|'''Pete Abrams''', author of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', on how much time has passed since the beginning of the story}}
▲{{quote|"Here's hoping for a few more decades! I'll get these jerks into college yet."|'''Dan Shive''' of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' on the comic's [http://egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2012-01-21 tenth anniversary]}}
Related to [[Comic Book Time]], Webcomic Time takes place when time taken by the story of a [[Web Comic]] (or other form of serial media) takes place over a shorter (in-universe) time than the (real-life) time it takes for the comic to actually be produced.
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20100403125044/http://www.onemanga.com/Yu_Yu_Hakusho/153/04/ this] page of the ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' manga, at the end of the Chapter Black Saga, Yusuke remarks that he feels "like he's been fighting for a year". It's also used [https://web.archive.org/web/20100402142307/http://www.onemanga.com/Yu_Yu_Hakusho/112/02/ at the end of the Dark Tournament Saga], a series that takes place over the course of a week and lasts for over a year's worth of manga chapters.▼
* In ''[[Bleach]]'', the back-to-back Hueco Mundo and Fake Karakura arcs took over three years in real time, but in-story happened over the course of ''less than 24 hours''.▼
** Before that the Soul Society Arc took place over two years and covered around three weeks of in-world time, mostly focused on the last few days.▼
* ''[[Dragon Ball]]''{{'}}s sagas are sometimes (the Saiyan saga, and some of the [[Tournament Arc]]s are notable exceptions) set over the course of no more than a month. Major events which take a year or more in real-time to draw or animate last maybe one to three days in-story. In an inversion, the [[Time Skip]]s catch up to the present and then some—35 years pass over 10–11 years real time.▼
* Late in the ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' manga, a subtle [[Fourth Wall]] gag slips in as Sanosuke tries (not too hard) to remember a pair of villains from the beginning of the series.▼
{{quote|'''Sanosuke:''' Yeah, I guess I remember that... four years and a half ago, wasn't it?▼
'''Brothers:''' '''Half''' a year! }}▼
* The climax of the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' manga, covering almost two years worth of chapters, takes place over a single day.▼
* Similarly, in ''[[Hellsing]]'', the [[Those Wacky Nazis|Millennium]] invasion of London and the following [[Melee a Trois|battle]] between Hellsing, Iscariot, and Millennium lasts from chapter 35 until the deaths of the Major and the Doktor in chapter 94 -and it all takes place during ''a single night''.▼
* Not long before the [[Time Skip]], ''[[One Piece]]'' spent over a year of real world time depicting a period of approximately 33 hours. {{spoiler|Approximately 20 hours of which were mostly skipped while Luffy recovered from Magellan's poison effectively making it a 13 hour period that was actually covered.}}▼
* The first 76 comics of ''[[The Word Weary]]'' take place over the course of one day even though they took six months to update.▼
* ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'' took six months of chapters to cover three days.▼
* ''[[Wandering Son]]'''s been going on for nine years at the time of this writing, but has only taken place over the span of about six years. The series tries to stay contemporary for the best of its abilities though. A calender in volume 11 clearly states "2010", though earlier chapters seem very early 2000s. We've seen the [[PlayStation 2]] several times within the manga but it's been a popular console throughout the new-millennium so it doesn't date the series to any year.▼
* ''[[Lost]]'' has explicitly covered 108 days (not counting flashbacks and flashforwards) in four seasons. Michael and his son Walt were [[Put on a Bus]] in season two because the actor playing Walt was growing conspicuously (this is lampshaded at one point in season four when Walt, "but taller," appears to Locke in a vision).▼
** An even better indication of this trope: Aaron was played by 57 different infants between the character's birth and leaving the island, because of how quickly the babies grew out of the part.▼
*** After the three year [[Time Skip]] between the fourth and fifth seasons, the remainder of the series consists of a couple of weeks which is a little over a year real-time.▼
* Each season of ''[[24
* Every episode of ''[[True Blood]]'' takes place over about twenty-four hours with each episode picking up the minute the previous episode ends (With the exception of a two-week time skip in Season 1) The first two seasons take place over 43 days.▼
* ''[[Breaking Bad]]'': The show has run for 5 seasons since 2008, but has only (at least through season 3) covered a period of a few months.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', dwarves only need to eat, drink, and sleep about once or twice per calendar season, and they can spend multiple days just traveling the fortress or fighting a goblin. Scale in general runs more on [[Rule of Fun]] than realism, though.▼
** Subverted with werebeasts which only transform for a couple of days around full moon, on larger maps this means they will change back before they even reach the entrance of the fortress and flee in their human/goblin/elf/dwarf form again from the map without any damage done.▼
** And also averted in Adventure Mode in which you have actually day and night cycle, and while it was done to fight a cyclops for over a week, you need to stack up quite a bit of food and drink and also longer breaks to not fall unconscious form overexert between smacking the cyclops with his own feet...▼
==
* As of December 2010, over 40% of the entire run of ''[[Dead Winter]]'' focused on the events of a single day.
* [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]] had an entire summer arc... that took over a year.
* ''[[Something*Positive]]'' sets entire plot arcs on the day the arc is supposed to end. This is usually done for holidays (for example, an arc set on Valentine's Day will start early in February and hopefully end on the 14th).
* ''[[Books Don't Work Here]]'' As of [http://booksdontworkhere.thecomicseries.com/comics/60 Page 60] where this is [[Lampshaded]] the whole comic has taken place in one day. that same page also mentions that there will be two flashbacks coming before the day is done.
* ''[[Drowtales]]'' from [https://web.archive.org/web/20111106104401/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=242&overview=1&chibi=1&cover=1&extra=1&page=1&check=1 Chapter 3, Page 14] to (as of writing this) Chapter 28 takes place over only a few months of comic time, from the end of the school year to the Moon's End Festival. Faen's fleeing was originally drawn in 2003, which means it took 7 years real time for Ariel to rescue Faen. Talk about "The Longest Wait"!
** Additionally, one fan humorously pointed out that one character had been carrying [https://web.archive.org/web/20111106103924/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=631 another's dead body] [https://web.archive.org/web/20111106103603/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=5843 for three years].
* All of the posted comics of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' represent about a round calendar month. This includes two story arcs ('Painted Black' and 'Grace's Birthday Party') which both took over a year and a half to cover periods of roughly six to eight hours, while the week that lay between them took another eight months to tell. The closest to real-time the comic gets is March 2003, which took place over about a week. Meanwhile, between May 2007 and August 2009, we have seen two full days pass and some change.
** As of Thursday, Jan 21, 2010 we wrapped up the day that began on Thursday, Mar 12, 2009. That's only about 10 months for a day.
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** The 2050 comics since its start in 1998 span about [http://www.crosstimecafe.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18&p=7486#p7486 twenty-two days in-comic].
* Likewise, though ''[[Dominic Deegan]]: Oracle For Hire'' doesn't have to be slaved to our calendar, taking place in a different, magical world, occasional jokes about how the characters' several-hour-long adventures "felt like months" crop up.
** For example, two strips [https://web.archive.org/web/20140213095024/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2003-01-08 here] and again [https://web.archive.org/web/20140213095024/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2003-01-08 here]
* ''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky!]]'' (as well as its sibling comics ''Roomies!'' and ''Shortpacked!'') took place more or less in real time. Occasionally, time would slide forward (for example, a storyline that took four months to cover the space of a couple hours ended, and the next storyline kicked in a few months later, synching back up more-or-less with the real world.)
** Dumbing of Age, however, uses webcomic time. From [[The Rant]] celebrating [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/news/were-one-year-old-today/ the one year (real time) aniversary]:
{{quote|We should gather and remember our favorite moments from Dumbing of Age past. Remember [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/01-move-in-day/home/ Sunday]? And [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/02-uphill-from-here/shower/ Monday]? How about [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2010/comic/book-1/03-men-are-from-beck-women-are-from-clark/comfortable/ Tuesday]? And can you believe [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/04-the-bechdel-test/wait/ Wednesday]? Wow. And let’s not even get into [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/05-media-rumble/trap/ Thursday]. And, jeez, [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/place/ Friday] is ''still going?''
What a roller coaster ride. Those were some good times.
May we all live to see Saturday. }}
* Parodied in ''[[Tsunami Channel]]: [http://www.tsunamichannel.com/index.php?date=2005-10-12&comic=ExCoKo Experimental Comic Kotone]'', in which a character causes a [[Temporal Paradox]] by buying an iPod Nano even though the story takes place in 2001.
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*** Amy's pregnancy leapt forward in one episode where she woke up, stared at her stomach and asked "how LONG between strips, anyway?"
* ''[[Wigu]]'' explicitly covered seven days between January 2002 and April 2005.
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' [[
** TIAOB recently announced that it will be introducing ''seasons,'' that particular strip involving a [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20090811.html giant robot knocking over a pile of freshly-raked autumn leaves.] It's also notable that Molly the artificial monster is still anticipating her first birthday, despite having been running around in the strip since 2006 (or since 1995, if you count the print comics version). Most of the strip's story arcs (the longest of which lasted a year) appear to take about a day or two.
* ''[[And Shine Heaven Now]]'' used to be a "nobody ever grows" strip, until a time-travel storyline published in 2006 retconned the previous strips and set the date definitively at 1997. By the end of 2008, in-strip continuity has reached 1998.
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* Averted with the Webcomic version of ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]]'', which takes place in real-time.
* ''[[The Class Menagerie]]'' apparently took place over two years, although the summer internship arc took place over a couple weeks.
* In [http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com Flying Man and Friends], the characters begin a journey (with an elephant pulling their house) in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160309211432/http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=244 this strip], and don't actually seem to go anywhere until [https://web.archive.org/web/20140523123754/http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=272 nearly a month later].
* The [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=113529 "VilAnon"] chapter of ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'' had Jane telling her life story over the course of one evening, but took 15 months of real time to complete.
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': The majority of the plot so far took place on April 13, 2009. (Due to time travel and alternate universes, almost all of the plot asides from flashbacks has occurred on five or so distinct days in separate universes, which, from the characters' points of view, all occur at the same time.) Naturally this leads confusion when [[Real Life]] holidays start cropping up. [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002969 So much sweet loot.] You'd almost think it was simultaneously your birthday, AND Christmas or something. [[Lampshade Hanging|Of course you know that is ridiculous and could never conceivably happen.]]
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*** And then it's revealed that {{spoiler|two of the characters in the Act 6 universe are actually living about four hundred years in the future.}}
* An angry mob in ''[[Instant Classic]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305002211/http://instantclassic.net/bd/index.php?comic=52 shows up] in a comic dated September 2007, but doesn't actually [https://web.archive.org/web/20160306173356/http://instantclassic.net/bd/index.php?comic=85 do anything] until June 2009. "... How long have we been standing out here...?"
* The entirety of ''Two Weeks Notice'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20100323130403/http://www.drunkduck.com/
* In ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' the Light Warriors are given 24 hours to prepare to fight {{spoiler|Chaos}}, which in real life took from October to February of the next year. However, it's then played with when they realize (too late) that [[RPG Mechanics Verse|it only became night once one of them slept at an inn]].
* Although ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' was not immune to this trope, it has always managed to even out comic time vs. real time in the end. It remains to be seen to what extent its [[Spin-Off]] ''[[Bad Machinery]]'' will stick to this, considering that the story there starts three years later than the end of SGR, ergo in 2012.
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** Later, it comes up again in [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1497.html this] strip. For those at the paintball field it's been only a few minutes, but for Pirta it feels like it's been [http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1491.html two weeks.]
* Inverted in ''[[Better Days]]'' where although the story arcs happens in Webcomic Time, there are large timeskips in between some arcs that result in the comic progressing faster than normal time.
* ''[[Erma]]'': At the start of 2018, [https://tapas.io/episode/953032 the family left on a trip]. Nearly three years later in Real Life, we learn [https://tapas.io/episode/1976541 they've only been away for one week].
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
▲* In [http://www.onemanga.com/Yu_Yu_Hakusho/153/04/ this] page of the ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' manga, at the end of the Chapter Black Saga, Yusuke remarks that he feels "like he's been fighting for a year". It's also used [http://www.onemanga.com/Yu_Yu_Hakusho/112/02/ at the end of the Dark Tournament Saga], a series that takes place over the course of a week and lasts for over a year's worth of manga chapters.
▲* In ''[[Bleach]]'', the back-to-back Hueco Mundo and Fake Karakura arcs took over three years in real time, but in-story happened over the course of ''less than 24 hours''.
▲** Before that the Soul Society Arc took place over two years and covered around three weeks of in-world time, mostly focused on the last few days.
▲* [[Dragon Ball]]'s sagas are sometimes (the Saiyan saga, and some of the [[Tournament Arc]]s are notable exceptions) set over the course of no more than a month. Major events which take a year or more in real-time to draw or animate last maybe one to three days in-story. In an inversion, the [[Time Skip]]s catch up to the present and then some—35 years pass over 10–11 years real time.
▲* Late in the [[Rurouni Kenshin]] manga, a subtle [[Fourth Wall]] gag slips in as Sanosuke tries (not too hard) to remember a pair of villains from the beginning of the series.
▲{{quote|'''Sanosuke:''' Yeah, I guess I remember that... four years and a half ago, wasn't it?
▲'''Brothers:''' '''Half''' a year! }}
▲* The climax of the [[Fullmetal Alchemist]] manga, covering almost two years worth of chapters, takes place over a single day.
▲* Similarly, in [[Hellsing]], the [[Those Wacky Nazis|Millennium]] invasion of London and the following [[Melee a Trois|battle]] between Hellsing, Iscariot, and Millennium lasts from chapter 35 until the deaths of the Major and the Doktor in chapter 94 -and it all takes place during ''a single night''.
▲* Not long before the [[Time Skip]], ''[[One Piece]]'' spent over a year of real world time depicting a period of approximately 33 hours. {{spoiler|Approximately 20 hours of which were mostly skipped while Luffy recovered from Magellan's poison effectively making it a 13 hour period that was actually covered.}}
▲* The first 76 comics of ''[[The Word Weary]]'' take place over the course of one day even though they took six months to update.
▲* ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'' took six months of chapters to cover three days.
▲* ''[[Wandering Son]]'''s been going on for nine years at the time of this writing, but has only taken place over the span of about six years. The series tries to stay contemporary for the best of its abilities though. A calender in volume 11 clearly states "2010", though earlier chapters seem very early 2000s. We've seen the [[PlayStation 2]] several times within the manga but it's been a popular console throughout the new-millennium so it doesn't date the series to any year.
▲== Web Original ==
* ''[[Tales of MU]]'' has been running since June of '07. In story, it is currently 35 days after Chapter 1. [[Word of God]] is that the author is deliberately following this trope.
* Over ''ten'' years of ''[[The Saga of Tuck]]'' have produced one calendar year of plot where it is still canonically 1997.
* The [[Whateley Universe]] handled this by starting out way back in 2004 with a school year supposed to be starting in fall of 2006. Six years later, they've gotten all the way to January 2007 in the stories.
* [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s Dark Nella saga was released over two and a half months but seems to only take place over one or two days at most, if that.
▲== Live Action Television ==
▲* ''[[Lost]]'' has explicitly covered 108 days (not counting flashbacks and flashforwards) in four seasons. Michael and his son Walt were [[Put on a Bus]] in season two because the actor playing Walt was growing conspicuously (this is lampshaded at one point in season four when Walt, "but taller," appears to Locke in a vision).
▲** An even better indication of this trope: Aaron was played by 57 different infants between the character's birth and leaving the island, because of how quickly the babies grew out of the part.
▲*** After the three year [[Time Skip]] between the fourth and fifth seasons, the remainder of the series consists of a couple of weeks which is a little over a year real-time.
▲* Each season of [[24|Twenty Four]], [[Running Time in the Title|true to its name]], takes place over a single 24-hour period, while being aired over a span of about 4 months. The series as a whole avoids this trope by having time passing in between seasons be longer than in reality.
▲* Every episode of ''[[True Blood]]'' takes place over about twenty-four hours with each episode picking up the minute the previous episode ends (With the exception of a two-week time skip in Season 1) The first two seasons take place over 43 days.
▲* ''[[Breaking Bad]]'': The show has run for 5 seasons since 2008, but has only (at least through season 3) covered a period of a few months.
▲== Video Games ==
▲* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', dwarves only need to eat, drink, and sleep about once or twice per calendar season, and they can spend multiple days just traveling the fortress or fighting a goblin. Scale in general runs more on [[Rule of Fun]] than realism, though.
▲** Subverted with werebeasts which only transform for a couple of days around full moon, on larger maps this means they will change back before they even reach the entrance of the fortress and flee in their human/goblin/elf/dwarf form again from the map without any damage done.
▲** And also averted in Adventure Mode in which you have actually day and night cycle, and while it was done to fight a cyclops for over a week, you need to stack up quite a bit of food and drink and also longer breaks to not fall unconscious form overexert between smacking the cyclops with his own feet...
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