History Main / NarniaTime

* ''Literature/TheTowerOfGeburah'' series[[labelnote:*]]John White[[/labelnote]]:

* As though tracking time in Narnia and its relationship to Earth wasn’t complicated enough on its own in the series, in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5779581/1/The-Lion-the-Cat-and-the-Turtles The Lion, the Cat and the Turtles]]'' the Turtles, Splinter, April, Klunk and Susan are drawn into Narnia from their present (at a point when Susan’s an old woman) and arrive during the reign of King Rilian, which is considerably earlier than the last time anyone from Earth visited Narnia (''Literature/TheLastBattle'' was stated as taking place over two centuries after Rilian’s death).

** Possibly averted in Guinan's case, as the Guinan Picard sees is described (by herself) as being some sort of remnant/echo of the Guinan that left.

* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', Evangeline A.K. Mc Dowell uses miniaturized worlds contained within glass diorama spheres as alternate places to train or relax, such as the Resort. One hour in the real world equals 24 in the resort. Due to a spell cast by Evangeline, occupants must stay for a full day (one hour in the real world) before being able to leave. This device is the subject of an important plot twist during the Mahora festival arc.

* Once the rescue team crosses over from Equestria to Arcadia in FanFic/IntoTheHedge, they soon learned that in Arcadia, what may 'feel' like the passage of 24 hours might not necessarily ''be'' 24 hours, outside ''or inside'' Arcadia.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' example: As if [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace The Warp]] wasn't bad enough, there have been stories of heroes being imprisoned in [[PlanetHeck places the Warp bleeds through into reality]], and finding that they'd been missing for hundreds of years when they escape.

** ''Videogame/FateGrandOrder'': Explicitly mentioned by Da Vinci in the second part of the game, in regards to [[LayeredWorld jumping between the real world and the "Sea of Imaginary Numbers"]]. The "rate" of time between the two realms always fluctuates, although time would usually pass slower in the real world.
* In ''Videogame/FinalFantasyXIV: Shadowbringers'', time passes at a different rate in the world of the First than the Source, but settles down into roughly synchronous after the Warrior of Light travels there.

->'''Loki:''' Bifrost brought me out here weeks ago.\\

'''The Grandmaster:''' Time works real different around these parts. On any other world, I’d be like a million years old. But here on Sakaar ...

* In ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', time only passes in the dimensions that have players in them. If you are in the nether, you crops won't grow and your items won't smelt in the overworld. Time works as normal in multiplayer if at least one player each is in the overworld and nether.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' example: As if [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace The Warp]] wasn't bad enough, there have been stories of heroes being imprisoned in [[PlanetHeck places the Warp bleeds through into reality]], and finding that they'd been missing for hundreds of years when they escape. On the other side of things, ships that come to the aid of distress signals occasionally find themselves under attack and sending the signal they'd followed in the first place. One Ork Warboss, looking to dual-wield his unique weapon, managed to ambush and assassinate ''his past self'' this way (the Waaagh! collapsed in the general confusion). Even on an an uneventful trip through the warp, timekeeping relative to the materium is a pain in the neck. Because all communication also uses the warp, the further a planet is from Terra the less certain they are of the actual date; the calendar the setting uses actually accounts for this.

* In Japanese folklore, there is a tale about Urashima Taro who, after rescuing a turtle who was a princess in disguise, he is taken by said princess to her castle, where they spend supposedly three years together there. When Urashima asks the princess to let him go back to the surface to see his friends and family again, she gives him a box that must never be opened. When the young fisherman tries to see his family, he is told that they died ''400'' years ago, which devastates him emotionally. [[DespairEventHorizon Utterly hopeless]], he opens the aforementioned box--which immediately makes him 400 years older--and dies instantly. It happens that the box was retaining his ''true age at that moment''.

* ''WebAnimation/ElementsOfJustice'': the unofficial sequel to TurnaboutStorm does this as a change to their multiverse. 1.5 years passed in Equestria after that trial. But 8 years passed on Phoenix's earth.

** TheProfessor actually believes Lucy is telling the truth about her first visit to Narnia because her story makes use of this trope (with which he has some personal experience, as revealed in the {{prequel}}) without her realizing it. He says that if Lucy were really lying about Narnia, she would have hidden for a long time before trying to sell the story, rather than claiming to have been gone for hours when only a few seconds had passed.

** It was shown in ''The Last Battle'' that things can work the other way round too; King Tirian sees a (two way) vision of our world, and the various heroes of the series, and minutes later Jill and Eustace appear to save him (he had been tied to a tree by the bad guys). In the "real" world, they had spent a few days formulating a plan to get back to Narnia and save him.

* ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' suggests that this is true of Hell. While in previous ''Doom'' games time seemed to pass equally between Hell and Earth, the reveal that [[spoiler:the Doom Slayer, whom the demons describe as having ravaged Hell for eons, is the same Doomguy from the classic ''Doom'' games]] only makes sense if time in Hell and time on Earth are completely disconnected.

* The animated ''Disney/PeterPan'' and its sequel. Time moves slowly in Neverland, hence why Peter never grows old... but then how can a couple of Neverland days last [[FridgeLogic only a few hours in England?]]

* In ''Negima! Magister Negi Magi'', Evangeline A.K. Mc Dowell uses miniaturized worlds contained within glass diorama spheres as alternate places to train or relax, such as the Resort. One hour in the real world equals 24 in the resort. Due to a spell cast by Evangeline, occupants must stay for a full day (one hour in the real world) before being able to leave. This device is the subject of an important plot twist during the Mahora festival arc.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Discworld/SmallGods'', when Brutha [[spoiler: dies, and finds Vorbis, who died a century ago, still hasn't crossed the desert]]:

* In ''Series/TheGoodPlace'', afterlife time is described as looping around and doubling back on itself, eventually forming a circle that happens to look like the name "Jeremy Bearimy" in cursive English. Complete with the dot over the "i"; it's Tuesdays, and also July, and even never (but only sometimes).

** The next time they visit Narnia a year later in Earth-time, hundreds of years have passed there, and [[LegendaryInTheSequel their previous exploits are the stuff of legend]]. Notably, they do not return to their Narnian ages, instead returning as children, but no one seems to notice this discrepancy in-universe.

* In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Evangeline A.K. Mc Dowell uses miniaturized worlds contained within glass diorama spheres as alternate places to train or relax, such as the Resort. One hour in the real world equals 24 in the resort. Due to a spell cast by Evangeline, occupants must stay for a full day (one hour in the real world) before being able to leave. This device is the subject of an important plot twist during the Mahora festival arc.

* In VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}, time only passes in the dimensions that have players in them. If you are in the nether, you crops won't grow and your items won't smelt in the overworld. Time works as normal in multiplayer if at least one player each is in the overworld and nether.

** The next time they visit Narnia a year later in Earth-time, hundreds of years have passed there, and [[LegendaryInTheSequel their previous exploits are the stuff of legend]].

* ''Videogame/FateGrandOrder'': Explicitly mentioned by Da Vinci in the second part of the game, in regards to [[LayeredWorld jumping between the real world and the "Sea of Imaginary Numbers"]]. The "rate" of time between the two realms always fluctuates, although time would usually pass slower in the real world.