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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...▼
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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** 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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* ''[[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].
==
▲* 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.
* ''[[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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