@TheGrimLich said in Smartphone Vol. 21 Discussion:
See, he would've noticed the calendar was different here faster if there were 16 23-day months, so I'm thinking the months are approximately the same length as your standard Earth month (30-31 days), just... with four more of them tacked on at the end.
I’m not so sure about that. In the section where his fiancé’s confront him over the difference between one world and the next, he specifically says he didn’t really pay much attention to the passage of days and just relied on his phone to tell him, and didn’t notice anything was amiss at all until it read off a month that he didn’t recognize. Given that, and the fact that he also specifically notes that the lack of reliable seasons due to the influence of spirits in that world gave him no other markers, I don’t think we can reliably say that he would have noticed one weeks worth of lower day counts.
Even as speculation goes, though, this is all fairly irrelevant, as in the end his brides do not seem to age faster relative to the number of that world’s years than a similar person on earth does. Whether they are the same number of days old as a 16-year-old on earth despite being only 12 in that world doesn’t mean much if they don’t show a commensurate level of development (physical, mental, etc.) to go with it.
