Talk:Sword Art Online Timeline/@comment-4852555-20121029090632/@comment-4852555-20121029181450

I see xD I was going through the light novels backwards last night and counting days, to try and put definitive dates on events. I ran into a gap on November 3rd, when it says they've been living on 22nd floor for more than ten days (which wasn't a concrete number). Barring that, I turned to the anime and pulled most of the dates from there and matched it correctly with the time lapses within the light novel.

I arrived at October 9th as the approximate start date for floor 74, because in Volume 1 Chapter 8 (which is October 18th), Kirito says it's been "nine days since people had begun actively exploring the 74th floor".

Of course, we can take ~1 to 2 days before that and say that was when the 73rd Boss was defeated, but it doesn't quite run the 74th floor into August.

As far as I'm aware, Sound of Water, Sound of Hammer is the only short story that takes place in August, and the front line there is at the 70th floor. It just seems to me that 4 floors cleared in August, and then 0 floors cleared in September is just strange...