History Main / YearOutsideHourInside

* ''Anime/Ulysses31'', "Chronos, Father of Time": Played with. Ulysses, his son Telemachus, and rescued friend [[{{Moe}} Yumi]] all happen to enter the kingdom of Chronos, the Olympian god who controls the passage of time in our universe. The problem is, time is passing faster outside the kingdom (where the spaceship ''Odyssey'' is positioned), than inside, and an existential problem presents itself as Ulysses' comatose companions and crewmates are aging at a comparatively-accelerated rate. (And Shirka/Circe, the ''Odyssey'''s artificially-intelligent computer, is unable to sustain them as they grow old.)

* ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': [[AlienGeometries Within the Black Moon]] time is warped and it slips away differently between two points. Shinji spent a short while taking part in a meeting, and when he exited that area to meet [[HeroesWantRedheads Asuka]] and [[SurpriseIncest Rei]] found that at least one week had passed.

* In ''Literature/{{Momo}}'', the title character spends one day in the house of [[TimeMaster Master Secundus Minutius Hora]], while one year passes in the outside world. The chapter where this happens is even titled "There a day and here a year", at least in the original German. This is not a case of time flowing differently, however, but of her spending a year in enchanted sleep but initially thinking she only slept one night.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8837257/1/Wizards-Fall Wizards Fall]]'', Harry, Hermione, and Luna have established a colony of refugees from the dystopian hellhole the post-Voldemort magical world has become. After figuring out a way to prevent new magical births, they take their colony outside normal reality for one hundred years local time, which is one ''thousand'' years in the real world.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Time Sandwich", Magic Man steals Jake's sandwich, and creates a time bubble around himself in order the savor the sandwich. Finn and Jake stick their heads inside for what seems to be a couple of minutes, but when they come out, B-Mo tells them they were there for five hours. [[spoiler:Jake is able to move normally inside the bubble by being sad.]]

* This happened in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet and the Planeteers}}'' two-parter "Summit to Save the Earth" episode. Inside Zarm's ship, every minute that passed would equate to a month outside, so that when the Planeteers got booted from the ship the world had become a wasteland.

* Referenced in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "The Fight Before Christmas".
-->'''Santa Krusty:''' I'm sure in the 25 years of Earth time you've been gone, your parents have been worried.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Time Trap". Time passes much more slowly inside the title area than in the outside universe. The people caught inside the trap can live for centuries longer than normal.

* In Craig Shaw Gardner's ''Slaves of the Volcano God'' Roger spends two days in the Cineverse. When he calls his mother after returning home, she complains that he's been missing for two weeks.

* In ''ComicBook/BlackHammer'', when Joseph Weber first picked up the magical hammer that would turn him into the titular superhero, he was whisked away to New World for a short chat with Starlok and the Lightriders. Upon being sent back to Earth, he rushed home to tell his wife Lorraine about the crazy night he'd just had, only to learn that he had actually been gone for four months.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' the Feymarch is [[InformedAttribute said]] to work this way, but the only evidence is [[spoiler:Rydia being recruited as a young girl, later abducted by Leviathan, and then reappearing a few chapters later as a grown woman, having aged several years in a matter of days, if not weeks, and later reveals that Leviathan took her to the Feymarch for instruction and training]].

* The Season 2 finale of ''Series/TheOrville'' features the group (or at least an alternate reality version of themselves where the Kaylon have nearly wiped out all organic life in the galaxy) trying to escape a group of them. To do so they hide within a black hole's gravity well, and they watch as the Kaylon search for them until giving up after two days, of the Kaylon's time, but for the group it was only for about a minute.

* In the novel ''Literature/OnceUponASummerDay'' by Dennis L. [=McKiernan=] the main character Borel must enter the Fairy King's domain in order to gain his help in his quest to rescue the [[DistressedDamsel damsel in distress]]. He is warned before hand that time doesn't flow the same. He ends up playing a chess game against the King, which takes a few hours. But when he leaves (having won and gained the aid he needed) he finds that in the real world a few weeks have passed--meaning he is only a day or two before his deadline of [[SaveThePrincess saving the girl]].

The heroes enter some kind of enchanted place, usually much smaller than an entire MagicalLand — for example, a house, a castle, or an island. They spend only a few hours inside (and seemingly only age a few hours, too), but when they leave, they find that years have passed outside in the "normal" world. These places are also not only smaller but likely to be more malicious than a Magical Land, possibly designed by a villain to keep TheHero busy for a while. To that end, it might overlap with LotusEaterMachine. Ones that are particularly cruel have where once you pass the boundary [[NoImmortalInertia you wind up becoming however old they should normally be in the present]]. In simpler terms (and as summarized from the page quote above), ''time moves slower'' from the inside compared to the normal flow of time on the outside.

The heroes enter some kind of enchanted place, usually much smaller than an entire MagicalLand — for example, a house, a castle, or an island. They spend only a few hours inside (and seemingly only age a few hours, too), but when they leave, they find that years have passed outside in the "normal" world. These places are also not only smaller but likely to be more malicious than a Magical Land, possibly designed by a villain to keep TheHero busy for a while. To that end, it might overlap with LotusEaterMachine. Ones that are particularly cruel have where once you pass the boundary [[NoImmortalInertia you wind up paying back the difference]]. In simpler terms (and as summarized from the page quote above), ''time moves slower'' from the inside compared to the normal flow of time on the outside.

The heroes enter some kind of enchanted place, usually much smaller than an entire MagicalLand — for example, a house, a castle, or an island. They spend only a few hours inside (and seemingly only age a few hours, too), but when they leave, they find that years have passed outside in the "normal" world. These places are also not only smaller but likely to be more malicious than a Magical Land, possibly designed by a villain to keep TheHero busy for a while. To that end, it might overlap with LotusEaterMachine. Ones that are particularly cruel apply RapidAging once you pass the boundary (see also NoImmortalInertia). In simpler terms (and as summarized from the page quote above), ''time moves slower'' from the inside compared to the normal flow of time on the outside.

TimeDilation, an effect of travelling very close to the speed of light or being in an incredibly strong gravitational field, is a real-life version of this.

* ''TabletopGame/AdventuresInFantasy''. Each day that passes in the Faerry realm, 100 years pass on the material plane.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' adventure ''The Coriolis Effect''. The time Doctor Arcane spent in Ch'andarra's realm seemed but a prolonged instant. When he returned to Earth he found that five years had passed.

* In ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' episode "The Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody", this was the method Yuki used to bring Kyon back to his time: being unable to time-travel herself, she basically [[TheSlowPath put him in stasis]].

* Parodied in a ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' sketch that aired during its final days, where a child wanders into a magical land and has a day of fun and adventure. In the "real" world, the boy has been missing for several days and his father is accused of kidnapping him and becomes the subject of a media frenzy. When the boy finally returns home, he enters the house looking for his father, only for the camera to pan up and reveal he hung himself.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''

* Ultimately the solution to the problems humanity faces in Roger Allen's ''Chronicles of Solace'' trilogy. Terraforming a stable environment, it seems, is far harder than one might imagine. The resulting ecologies will invariably suffer cascade failures, resulting in a desolate, uninhabitable planet. Spending more time on the terraforming merely delays the inevitable. But if you wrap the entire star system in a time warp, such that thousands of years pass by on the inside, then you can spend tens of thousands of years terraforming, vastly increasing the chances that it'll 'stick', and still get an Earth-like planet in a matter of months.