History Main / FantasticTimeManagement

Favorite methods include TimeTravel (But be careful, SanDimasTime stops for ''nobody'',) YearInsideHourOutside, and NarniaTime, however there can also be other ways of accomplishing this. This is often a form of MundaneUtility.

** A variation appears in [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]], in which a centuries-long calculation to disintegrate a door with the [[MagicWand sonic screwdriver]] is carried out instantly by having an earlier incarnation of the Doctor program it in and a later incarnation read out the result from a centuries-older version of the device. [[spoiler:The same technique is used on a larger scale to enable all the Doctor's incarnations working in concert to isolate Gallifrey from the timestream, removing it from the Time War without destroying it.]]

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin travels two hours into the future to get his completed homework from his future self. Of course, it isn't done yet because two hours ago he went back in time to get it. The 6:30 Calvin and 8:30 Calvin then decide to gang up on the 7:30 Calvin and make ''him'' do the homework, but run into the same problem. Meanwhile, the 6:30 and 8:30 Hobbeses [[TagalongChronicler write about the mess the Calvins are getting into]]. Hobbes's story ends up getting an A+, though it does make Calvin look rightfully ridiculous.

* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'': The [[SkillScoresAndPerks merit]] "Brownie's Boon" lets a character speed through extended tasks, so long as they're not being watched, like the HouseFey. They work twice as fast by default and can work at up to sixteen times the usual speed by spending [[{{Mana}} Glamour]].

* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'': The [[SkillScoresAndPerks merit]] "Brownie's Boon" taps into the magic of the HouseFey to speed the character through extended tasks, so long as they're not being watched. They work twice as fast by default and can work at up to sixteen times the usual speed by spending [[{{Mana}} Glamour]].

* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'': The "Brownie's Boon" merit lets a character tap into the magic of the HouseFey and speed through extended tasks, so long as they're not being watched. They work twice as fast by default and can work at up to sixteen times the usual speed by spending [[{{Mana}} Glamour]].

* Used in a farcical novel by Creator/HarryHarrison called ''Literature/TheTechnicolorTimeMachine'', where a desperate movie director, lacking a budget for a historical film about Vikings, hires a crackpot inventor, who actually builds a working time machine, to film the whole thing in the past, saving money on sets and actors. Since they have to deliver in a short time frame, they hire a scriptwriter and send him to an island in the past for a month to write the script. After a few such trips, they get the script and start filming, at which point they use the time machine to skip forward and back (setting up {{Stable Time Loop}}s). All nearly seems lost when the director is forced to go to his boss's office empty-handed, only for his future self to appear with the film all done and tell him to keep working (also giving him a piece of paper with a diagram of what to do to get to that point). In the end, the film is done and is a big hit, and the director realizes that [[spoiler:the Vikings only created first settlmenent in the New World because a film director wanted to make a movie]].

* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', Negi Springfield uses ''both'' the TimeTravel ''and'' the YearInsideHourOutside solution:

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5639518/1/ The Harem War,]]'' Harry Potter uses special time turner to live every day 3 times. It specifically told that it doesn't cause him to age faster. Herminone (and later [[spoiler: Narcissa]] ) manages his schedule. He need this because he need to finish magical education, train to fly (as in 'muggle combat aircraft'), take his part in governing [[spoiler: Duchess of Charenwell (foreign policy issues ARE Duke's responsibility and this includes dealing with Magical Britain, Charenwell is independent from Magical Britain but not fully independent from British Crown, up to the point that Queen has ranch here and Royal Air Forces uses it as hidden base in WWII)]] and there is small issue of his harem of [[spoiler: 26 girls ]] and it's expected that he WILL be sexually active with everybody except [[spoiler: Gabriel Delacour]]. He don't wanted such large harem. Hermione don't wanted it too but alternatives were much worse for girls.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'', Sakuya often use her time manipulation power to speed up housework.

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* Averted in Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick with Xykon; as a lich he has no need of sleep and thus plenty of extra time to further his schemes. But due to his world running on TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons rules he can only spend 8 hours a day working on magic items, and needs to spend another 8 hours resting to regain his spell slots even though he has no biological need for it. This frustrates him, so he spends the extra time sadistically amusing himself with minions and prisoners.

* In ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', there's an episode where Dexter has only one minute before the school bus arrives and he hasn't done his homework yet, so he uses a time-extending helmet to turn 30 seconds into 30 minutes to get everything done. [[ShaggyDogStory It turns out to be in vain as that day it snowed and school was canceled.]]

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'', the title character can make time flow faster or slower for himself relative to the world around him. He regularly uses this ability for mundane everyday schedule management.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Hermione Granger uses daily time travel to take more classes than would be otherwise possible. At the end she decides it's too much of a hassle and drops the extra subjects to have a more normal schedule. [[spoiler: Specifically, Muggle Studies, which is useless as she's a muggle-born, and Divination, which is taught by a Professor who Hermione firmly believes (and, to be fair, 99.9% of the time is) a quack.]]

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Hermione Granger uses daily time travel to take more classes than would be otherwise possible. At the end she decides it's too much of a hassle and drops the extra subjects to have a more normal schedule. [[spoiler: Specifically, Muggle Studies, which is useless as she's a muggle-born, and Divination, which is taught by (who she believes is) a quack.]]

* In the 1980s ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone Twilight Zone]]'' episode "A Little Peace and Quiet", a harried housewife finds a magic sundial that allows her to stop and restart time. She uses it to literally make time for herself, enjoying a peaceful breakfast or leisurely shopping for groceries while time is stopped for everyone else. Everything is perfect until nuclear war breaks out and she stops time while a missile is 10 feet above her head. She will have to choose between dying with everyone else and living her life forever trapped between two instants of time.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[HaremGenre How else do you keep your commitments to 31 girls in one day?]]]]

** In the Mahora Festival arc, Negi ends up majorly overbooking his schedule, as noted in the trope picture.[[note]](Being a NiceGuy and unable to say "no" to his UnwantedHarem.)[[/note]] He is given a TimeTravel device by Chao in order to allow him to meet all his commitments, time jumping three times on the first day alone. Of course, because this deprives him of sleep, he then ''also'' uses the aforementioned Evangeline's resort to be able to rest from all these activities.
*** [[spoiler: Which was exactly what [[TheChessmaster Chao]] expected him to do.]]

* One ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip suggests getting some long monitor and keyboard cables, and putting the CPU of your computer in Narnia, while keeping the I/O parts in England. Since {{Narnia time}} goes really fast, you can now run through the entire SETI@Home database in an hour...

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', Hermione Granger uses daily time travel to take more classes than would be otherwise possible. At the end she decides it's too much of a hassle and drops the extra subjects to have a more normal schedule.
** [[spoiler: Specifically, Muggle Studies, which is useless as she's a muggle-born, and Divination, which is taught by (who she believes is) a quack.]]