Needs an update with Best Gift Ever

@Darth Shy  
Ain’t that the truth

Time isn’t real

Unicorns can literally make it whatever season they want

No one even acknowledges how much time has passed in half a season.  
This season, Season 8.

Do seasons in Equestria even work the same way they do in the real world? I always figured that ponies simply made a season when they felt that it was needed, since they can do that, and it really has no bearing on the passage of time. Otherwise I have no idea how they could have gone straight from the start of spring to the start of fall back in season one when it was made clear that very little time had passed.

@FoldabotZ  
We’re looking at a minimum of fourish years. Four and a half given that the series began on a summer solstice. We saw what five-year-old ponies look like in “For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils.” At this point, the Cake twins have gone from temporal touchstones to the victims of a Simpsonian time vortex.
 
In other, less made-up words, the animators’ refusal to use new Flash models for children is more a case of Flash resource conservation than a logical passage of time.

@FanOfMostEverything  
One indication that 7 years haven’t passed in the show is the age of the CMC, who are all still young fillies in elementary and that Pumpkin and Pound Cake are sill toddlers, even though they were born around season 2.

@SecretTitan  
Well, the length of time that passes in show doesn’t usually match how much time passes IRL. 7 years in our world doesn’t necessarily mean 7 years in the show. Read here Slinding Timescale. The same is for most other long-running shows and comics. In comics, they publish new issues monthly and the time that passes in-universe between issues maybe little to none at all. That’s the same for cartoons.

@FoldabotZ  
At minimum. Entirely possible that there were a few that didn’t get episodes.

@FoldabotZ  
Five. Ocellus said she celebrated hearth’s warming once before this and the changlings weren’t freed till after a hearth’s warming tail.

@FoldabotZ  
4 years of Equestria. Maybe it does not last as long as a year on Earth.

Thus, should we conclude that the show takes place over a course of 4 years?

SUMMER SUN CELEBRATION  
ORIGINAL AIR DATE:  
OCTOBER 10, 2010
 
WINTER WRAP UP  
ORIGINAL AIR DATE:  
DECEMBER 24, 2010
 
RUNNING OF THE LEAVES  
ORIGINAL AIR DATE:  
JANUARY 28, 2011

It’s almost like events on the show don’t line up with time here.

I’ve found myself watching a lot of season 1 and season 2 episodes recently. It hards to explain but more recently I’ve felt an odd mix of nostalgia and acceptance towards the MLP tv show. The burden of love is knowing things will never stay the same and all things will change in time. But now, recently, I feel at peace.