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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
* 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|
'''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 [[
==
* ''[[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).▼
* As of December 2010, over 40% of the entire run of ''[[Dead Winter]]'' focused on the events of a single day. ▼
** 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
* ''[[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
** 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.
*** For a complete timeline, check out [http://elgoonishshive.wikia.com/wiki/El_Goonish_Shive_Timeline the Wiki.]
*** Even Dan seems to be getting slightly freaked out about it - although we've FINALLY moved on a couple of days (quite rapidly too), both the comic for 18th Aug 2010 and its commentary are part hanging a stadium-size lampshade, part flat out pointing out the time-warp. A scene took place noted as "Last October" (vs the then current in-strip date of "April 7th")... which apparently ''PRE-DATES'' - quite significantly - the comic's first storyline... published more than 8 1/2 years earlier. That's a ratio of about 15:1 on AVERAGE...
*** And 15:1 is ''still'' pretty tame compared to some more extreme examples below.
***
* Similarly, five years of ''[[Megatokyo]]'' cover just over two months of plot (''one day'' per chapter, plus 52 days for 'Chapter Zero', six weeks of which was skipped over entirely while a main character recovered from injuries).
** It gets especially bizarre when you consider that, despite ostensibly taking place in 2000, characters will make references to whatever is going on whenever the strip they're in came out. For example, strips that supposedly occur only a few days apart reference [[Metal Gear Solid]] II and IV, which came out ''years'' apart. Perhaps the most extreme case is Ed (a Sony employee)'s shirt, which promotes the as of then unreleased [[
** Parodied in [[Mac Hall]], [http://machall.com/view.php?date=2002-11-01 when Ian and JM are dressed up as Piro and Largo, respectively, for Halloween]. "Largo" asks if "Piro" can get him a beer, and "Piro" responds that it'll take at least three months.
** You've got to give credit to author Fred Gallagher for being aware of this, and keeping the continuity where possible (Yuki's iMac). This even gets lampshaded in Chapter 10 with Yuki's "very old cellphone."
* [[Grey Is...|Grey Is]] is released 6 pages a week, however it can sometimes take 60 pages just to get through to get through a single day
* ''[[
** Hilariously explained in [http://www.crfh.net/d/20100827.html this] guest strip, nine months into a very, ''very'' long day that didn't actually end until the strip was [[Retool
* [[Lampshade Hanging]] on technology datedness in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130917000906/http://cutewendy.com/go/41 this] ''cutewendy'' strip.
* Comics like ''[[PvP]]'' and ''[[Unshelved]]'' avoid this by having all comics (save the rare [[Story Arc]] ones) set the day they are posted. Time moves naturally and each strip is a snip from their daily lives in our timeline, allowing the characters to instead inhabit [[Comic Book Time]].
* Although ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'' have celebrated Christmas every year for the past 11 years, the two main characters have only aged two years.
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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|
▲What a roller coaster ride. Those were some good times.<br />
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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** ''QC'' is remarkable in that nearly every day of story time has a clear beginning and end, shown both by story (daytime vs evening activities) and by changes of [[The Merch|t-shirts]]. As of October 2008 about 58 days have been shown, with gaps of unknown duration. The longest continuous sequence so far was 13 days (strips 396-750, 16 months in real time).
** Emphasized in the [[News Post]] of the [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1309 first comic of 2009], where the author notes that the comic will soon feature its first [[It Is Always Spring|change of season]] in its run. Its ''five-and-a-half-year'' run.
** The breakup between Dora and Martin [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1799 as of November, 2010] illustrates the problems that occur around this trope; in
* In ''[[Between Failures]]'' 488 comics from to March 2007 to July 2009 covered around 1 1/2 days, with the 1st day taking 305 strips.
* An infamous example was ''[[Avalon (webcomic)|Avalon]]'', which started in November with the beginning of 10th grade, and by the end of December, was synced up so that most days fell somewhere within the storyline showing them. It was meant to run until graduation (three years later in Canada), but during the last year of story time, the author's updates became more and more sporadic, and he began to backdate the comics. Two years past the expected finale, he threw the towel in and described the events that followed in an unusually involved [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]].
* Something of a [[No Fourth Wall|fourth wall-breaking]] plot point in ''[[Bob and George]]'': During the ''[[Mega Man 3]]'' parody storyline, George is tied up and hung from the ceiling of Dr. Wily's fortress. The events of the story take a few days at most, yet George complains that he was hanging from the ceiling for three months: long enough for him to go slightly crazy, then flip out and destroy Wily's fortress upon discovering that he could have gotten himself out at any point.
* Subversion: In ''[[Achewood]]'', Philippe is five years old. He will always be five years old. However, all the other characters are forecasted to eventually age and die.
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[
** Notable example: when {{spoiler|1=[http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=971 Max comes back]}}.
* The first 14 chapters of ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' took about two years of real time, and covered Annie's first semester at the Court. Ironically, chapter 14 took the entire (real time) summer of 2007 to show the last day (webcomic time) before summer holiday. The author even noted this as such in Chapter 8 with "that night seemed to go on for months".
* The [[Final Boss]] battle and ending in ''[[Adventurers!]]!'' might have taken about two to three hours of real time, at most, but covered the last two years of the comic's run.
* Belatedly pseudo-averted in ''[[Least I Could Do]]'', where there's a mini-arc in which the author and artist send a letter to the characters stating that they will no longer be "forever 24", and that they will begin to age like normal people do. It's not truly averted, since several minutes happen during days or even weeks, but the characters aging still counts.
** It can be insinuated, though, that several days to weeks can occur in between story arcs, with the stand-alone gag-a-day comics being only a snippet of the daily lives of the characters. Then again, maybe this is just [[MST3K Mantra|thinking a little too hard]].
* ''[[Loserz]]'' ran over six years ([[Series Hiatus|with breaks]]), but the characters are still in High School.
* Avoided in a rather novel fashion by ''[[Sins|The Sins]]''. Each outing can not only take several years of in-comic time, but are told in a non-linear fashion, with some outings taking centuries before or after the preceding arc. This allows the comic to have team members who have retired or died come back without altering continuity. Fans still hope we never see the time period with the new Envy again, though, as he is also the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of the [[Replacement Scrappy]].
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' is a classic example. One storyline titled "5 Minutes at a Party" took roughly a month. Lampshaded: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160317104605/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=071112 "You've been gone for 4 weeks but it feels almost like a year!] Implicit jump-forwards over boring bits allow keeping the stories' time roughly but explicitly parallel to the real-world date (and bonus stories to be inserted earlier in the continuity retrospectively).
** Combined with a dash of [[Comic Book Time]], as once explained by [[Word of God|Pete]]:
{{quote|
* Only a few months have passed so far in ''[[Venus Envy]]'', despite the fact that the comic has been running for nearly seven years. In fact, the cast has been working on a school production of ''Romeo & Juliet'' since November
* ''[[Misfile]]'' began in March 2004, and is just getting to Winter 2004 in Winter 2011. [[Word of God]] states that the whole comic is slated to end {{spoiler|sometime around summer 2005}} which should give us at least another year-and-a-half of strips.
* A particularly epic example: ''[[Elf Life]]'''s "The Wedding" storyline, chronicling the events of a single day, ran for about ''two years''! It did, however, contain several extended flashbacks.
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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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* [[Tweep]] spent about 10 months on a single evening where two characters went on a date and three others went to a club. That's not counting the rest of the day before that, which took nearly 6 months.
* Although not as significant as some of the other examples, it's still very real in [[Slice of Life]] comic [[Gender Swapped]]. It was even [[Lampshaded]] on page 34. That's right, not even 50 pages in and the author was cracking Meta.
* As [http://www.freakangels.com/?p=77 pointed out by the author], [[Freak Angels]] spent the first year of its run (at 6 pages per week!) covering a period of less than 24 hours.
* ''[[Khaos Komix]]'' has some odd timeline problems, but according to [[Word of God]], it's intentional, and the timeline isn't set, [[Comic Book Time|it's all just happening "right now"]]. Even the flashbacks, and [[The Rashomon|revisiting previous events]].
* On at two separate occasions this has been [[Lampshaded]] in [[SSDD]] when Kingston [http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20021115.html notices] that he doesn't recall anything that happened during a timeskip after a lengthy story arc. The other characters usually attribute it to his [[Immune to Drugs|massive drug use]].
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* In ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'', the "Dinner for Six" arc took place mainly over two days, with most of the story covering a couple of hours, but ran for five and a half months. "The Popsicle War," which covered about six weeks in-comic, ran for a year. "Missing Person," which covered less than twenty-four hours, ran for three and a half months.
** The comic began in 2004 real-world time towards the end of the main characters' first year of high school. The comic ended in 2011 with a storyline depicting their final summer vacation of high school before their senior years started. Writer T Campbell [[Word of God|confirmed on the forum]] that the comic is meant to take place in the current real-world year, though throughout the strip the characters continuously make references to pop culture and real-world events that have happened in the intervening real-world years.
* Alice and her friends are implied to be in in 6th and 7th grade from 1999-2005 in the webcomic of the same name. During that time, they celebrated numerous Christmas and Halloween events as well as Dot's mother having a ''fifth'' child.
* 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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** The entirety of Act Five Act Two takes place over the course of more or less exactly 24 hours. It ran for more than a year from 9/19/10 to [[Arc Number|10/25]]/11.
** Act Six is a bit strange because {{spoiler|while it takes place on November 11th, 2011, it's set in an [[Alternate Universe]].}}
*** It gets a bit weirder. {{spoiler|Two characters actually travel between one universe and another by literally [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]. Although they're only in "our" world for a span of three nanoseconds, [[Timey-Wimey Ball|they subjectively experience]] [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|about three years]].}} [[Word of God]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130312060020/http://mspandrew.tumblr.com/post/14210746202/mad-answerins suggests] the possibility that {{spoiler|by entering our world they are being [[Time Skip|forced to make up the difference in time]].}}
*** 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]]'' [
* The entirety of ''Two Weeks Notice'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20100323130403/http://www.drunkduck.com/
* In ''[[8-Bit Theater
* Although ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' was not immune to
* It's hard to tell, but it seems like only at most two months have passed in the last seven years of ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]''.
* Lampshaded in this ''[[Ménage à 3]]'' [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20100624.html strip].
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* In ''[[The Cartoon Chronicles of Conroy Cat]]'', Doggy is about to get hit by a giant snowball rolling down a hill, and between the days the comic doesn't update, builds a ramp to send the snowball back to where it came.
* ''[[Enjuhneer]]'' has lampshaded this as the result of "[[Timey-Wimey Ball|putting Pocky in a time machine]]."
* ''[[Think Before You Think]]'', in [http://thinkbeforeyouthink.net/?comic=20110211-becky-sings this comic].
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* [[A Loonatics Tale]] solves the problem by ignoring it. The comic is set more-or-less in the modern day, but in a completely different world, using a calendar that puts the events of the comic somewhere around the year 3000 (by which I mean, they're not using the Gregorian calendar). As of this writing, it's the beginning of summer, but the current story arc is taking place sometime in autumn (except for the bit at the very beginning, which is a flashback to the beginning of summer about twenty years ago).
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' typically maintains a 12:1 ratio of time, so 1 month in the webcomic is about a year in real life. However, this is by no means standard, and there have been a few books that pick up weeks, or even months after the previous one left off.
** Book 12, the current arc, has taken almost 11 months, and only a few hours have passed in the comic.
* Inverted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120508121548/http://www.rhjunior.com/GH/00388.html this] Goblin Hollow strip.
* Lampshaded in ''[[Dragon Ball Multiverse]]'', when an annoyed U18 Vegeta mentions that it felt like two years since his fight in the tournament, when only a couple of hours have passed in the comic.
* The infamous [[Potty Emergency|bathroom break]] from ''[[Pawn]]''. The act therein, and the conversation between Baalah and Ayanah occurs in what looks like, the span of a few minutes. The actual progress of the comics release, meant it lasted for ''almost a year.''
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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|Tournament Arcs]] 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|Time Skips]] 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?<br />
▲'''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 [[Play Station 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.
▲* ''[[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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