Thank you for the responses so far. It seems like there is no definite answer yet to this question, but a lot of interesting speculation about how long our characters may be in cryostasis (figuratively speaking of course).

There doesn't seem to be any evidence yet to support whether or not the various NPC's also get preserved and make that shift forward in time with us. If that's the case, it's entirely possible we all could make a leap 500 years into the future along with Cid and the others and just kind of pick up where we left off.

Another question that this presents would be whether new characters created after ARR expected to have been born in that realm's timeframe and ignorant to the events of 1.0 that led up to the fall of Dalamud and everything (apart from history lessons or what have you).

Personally I am indifferent to whether it's 5 months or 500 years and will be perfectly happy either way. But, as has been suggested by some of the other role-players who have responded, their plans post-ARR may hinge heavily on how long or short this span of time is. For myself, I've enjoyed following the story so far and I'm mostly just curious, and wondering such thing as whether we can expect to see some aged versions of some of the NPC's that may not have made the jump forward with us.

While it is fun to speculate on this and I certainly don't mind waiting for the release of ARR to find out, I do hope that the Devs can get an answer for us and give us a little spoiler here.