What lore do you ignore?

[Iscah]

This…is a thing. Time is really done weird here. Like, just the boat trip from Limsa to Kugane was…2-3 months according to lore stuff?? So a quarter of our ARR-EW experience was on a boat.

Except it isn't, because the devs have been very clear that the plot is not in any way intended to fit within a year.

If anything, we we have a window of one year from ARR to base Stormblood only (as they slipped up on their "never mention dates" rule and said it's been a year since the Doman rebellion), but besides that, they're not trying to pretend it really fits into a year. They're just explicitly ignoring the real amount of time.

If you're counting the time between events, then the three months on the boat are part of the "nebulous time span from event to event" and not the calendar.