What lore do you ignore?

[Iscah]

I agree, but I also would concede if someone wanted to say that this was “stated by an NPC in the game” as a potential basis for a timeline.

I don't think Yoshida-in-the-Rising counts as an NPC within the bounds of the game's reality. He makes it fairly clear that he has come from outside it.

Characters within the game's reality still tell you that it is five years since the Calamity.

[kaynide]

I don't think Yoshida-in-the-Rising counts as an NPC within the bounds of the game's reality. He makes it fairly clear that he has come from outside it.

Characters within the game's reality still tell you that it is five years since the Calamity.

Again, I agree.

But, again, I would concede if someone used it as a basis for their argument regarding the passage of time.

If someone asked Yoshida in an interview “how much time has passed since the fall of the moon?”
And he said “ah around 7 years”, it would be accepted as an answer relevant in game that 2ish years have passed from ARR to EW.