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Passage of time in QC...

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jwhouk:
One problem: The strip started in 2003.

osaka:
Jeph specifically said that it was at any given time the current time and 2006. I think we can live with comic time starting in 2005 even if he started drawing in 2003.

AprilArcus:
I'm using the 2006 calendar because it's helpful to have specific dates for the purposes of e.g. classes start, classes end, three-day weekends, but you could probably pick this up and put it down on any year's academic calendar without needing to rework too much. "2004", "2005" and "2006" don't necessarily mean those literal calendar dates, I just find them more convenient to talk about than algebraic variables like "last week of January, Starting Year + 1"

To take my pedantry to a ridiculous extreme, I think we can plausibly extend Jeph's remark to take Year 1 as being a quantum superposition of 2004 and 2003-2004; Year 2 as a quantum superposition of 2005 and 2004-2009, and Year 3 as a quantum superposition of 2006 and 2009-present

AprilArcus:
Consolidating Darkbluerabbit and LeeZion's research on consecutive blocks from the older thread. Unbroken blocks of bullet points indicate known-consecutive days:

* 100-118
* 119-139
* 140-163
* 164-185 (164: Amanda is on winter break)
* 186-213 (203: Marten gets a haircut)
* 214-236
* 237-269 (247: Emily is in spring semester)
* 270-309 (288: Faye has been living with Marten for "months")
* 310-350 (315: "You should be able to start moving stuff in next week"; 329: Sven's first appearance, with chin-length hair; 338: "I will try not to be such a heinous bitch in the future")To account for the dialogue in 315, 310-350 might be on a Friday with 384-395 on a Monday, meaning a one-day gap here. Maybe longer but not much, since Faye's dialogue in 364 references the recent resolution from 338. Hat tip to Darkbluerabbit and Blackcat Moebius for this analysis.

* 351-383 (364: "I'm making an effort to be less of an awful bitch from now on"; 366: First appearance: Amir; 380: "packing up")
* 384-395 Moving dayMaybe a gap here, but I doubt it. In 397, Dora asks "how's the new apartment?", which is a day-after-moving sort of question.

* 396-417 (398: Faye has been sleeping on Marten's couch for "the last couple of months")
* 418-430
* 431-463 (432: Monday? Veronica calls Marten in sick for the rest of the week)
* 464-509 (458: Faye moved to northhampton a few months ago)
* 510-534 (515: First Appearance: Hannelore)
* 535-569
* 570-580
* 581-604 (584: Faye arrives in Savannah)
* 605-622
* 623-647 (624: Monday? Marten goes back to work, gets laid off.)
* 648-686 (651: Long lines at Coffee of Doom following good press in Local Alternative Rag. 658: Nat recommends Marten for the library job she was just fired from. 663: Hanners cuts her hair. 664: Band practice)
* 687-722 (691: Tai hires Marten. 713: Ellen dumps Steve. 726: Bailey makes out with Jenna and Tai's whole social network comes down with mono)
* 723-750 (725: Penelope starts work at Coffee of Doom)LeeZion's notes on consecutivity end here; I will pick up from here in the next post.

Hat tip to plasticshovel and bicostp for suggesting the use of hair-cuts as a timekeeping mechanism. (Marten's second haircut is in 857, so it must be about six weeks after 203. Sven rarely cuts his hair, so tracking its length will let us guess about the passage of time if all else fails.)

Omega Entity:
April, I don't know if anyone's made this observation or not, but I find it extremely fitting that you have Hanners as you avatar. Seriously, there has to be some level of OCD to pick up on all this stuff, and also to organize it so well  :mrgreen:

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