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== Anime ==
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Andromeda]]'' measures years in Commonwealth Years, which starts with the beginning of the Vedran Empire, making time in the series very non-specific. However, [[All There in the Manual|extended material]] gives the Commonwealth date for when Friedrich Nietzsche published "Thus Spake Zarathustra", a definite date in our time system, so assuming they use the same years as we do (years based on the cycle of Tarn Vedra rather than Earth, though the difference can't be too much), it creates a good guess of the timeline of the series.
* The [http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Timeline_(RDM) Battlestar Wiki Timeline] measures time from the Cylon holocaust depicted in the ''[[
* The current year is never mentioned in any season of ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'', but the amount of time between days (16 months between Day 1 and 2, three years between Day 2 and 3, etc) is always established and can be used to determine how many years it has been since Day 1. In addition, fans have used various clues to formulate the following timeline:
** Day 1: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2004
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== Literature ==
* In the early days of ''[[Harry Potter]]'', fans had to measure time from Harry's first year at Hogwarts. Thankfully for timeline-makers, ''[[Chamber of Secrets]]'' [[Fandom Nod|threw in a line]] (specifically, Nick's Deathday date) that placed the first book in the 1991-92 school year. ''Deathly Hallows'' established the same time frame through the dates on James and Lily Potter's graves. Frustratingly, this means that Dudley was able to destroy a "Playstation" [[Did Not Do the Research|roughly a year before one could actually be bought]], but that's a throwaway remark and has no bearing on the adaptations.
** The movies throw their own wrench into the timeline by destroying the [[
*** There were further anachronisms (if one considers the films' timeline to be the same as that of the books) in the previous movie, such as a car with a 2006 numberplate being clearly visible in the background when Harry brings Dudley home, and later on Harry flying past the [
* Though there were always some details here and there that showed in what year the [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories were set, there was always the question on how old was Holmes. Whether he was in his 20's, 30's or 40's during Study In Scarlet (his first appeareance). It wasn't until His Last Bow (which was supposed to be the [[Grand Finale]]) that he decided to give Holmes an age of 60 during 1914, meaning that he was born in 1854 and was 27 years old during Study in Scarlet (set in 1881)
* J.R.R. Tolkien's timeline in both ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' was meticulously kept. Frequent dates were given on the in-universe calendar (in the case of The Lord of the Rings both in Shire Reckoning and the larger calendar of Middle-Earth). Additionally, each culture kept time based on their own internal reckoning, with years based on significant events: The Hobbits followed Shire Reckoning, with Year Zero on the founding of the Shire, while Gondor and Rohan had their own calendars as well. Middle-earth on the whole broke timekeeping down into different Ages whose first year was decided by specific events. Tolkien paid so much attention to his calendar system that he even rewrote the ''entire chapter'' of Faramir and Frodo overlooking the waterfall at Henneth Annûn because he realized that the phases of the moon he used didn't match his previously established timeline!
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