Destiny's timeline calculated... (/-/ Rampant Speculation /-/)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 15:04 (2558 days ago)

So Reddit user APartyInMyPants did the monster math to gauge how much time has passed between when our Guardians awoke, and when Destiny 2 starts, based off of the game's Day/night cycle.

I won't count the beta (or alpha), but the first playable day of Destiny was September 9, 2014, while the first playable day of Destiny 2 will be September 8, 2017.

That's a range of 1095 days. And with a one-hour day/night cycle on Earth in Destiny, that means that every IRL day is 24 days in game. Extrapolating that, 1095 IRL days equates to 26,280 day/night cycles on Earth. Doing the math, that means that day one players have been around for exactly 72 years (if only dividing by 365).

Once he includes the Alpha, the numbers get a little more... Bungie-like.

But if we add that entire gap of time from June 12 - September 9, that brings us an addition 89 IRL days, for a total of 1184 IRL days. That turns to 28,416 day/night cycles, which puts us at ...

Drum roll ...

77.85 years.

Even accounting for the leap days over that span (19 of them) that puts us at 77.8 years.

Pretty neat!
Rise of Iron is really the only way to gauge how much time has passed, since it's clearly Winter in the Cosmodrome, but it doesn't necessarily say that all of the events in Destiny have been over a brief time period.