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  1. No calendar datesThe books give no calendar dates. Everything is relative ('seven years ago', 'twelve years'). The series title year is 2201; Part 2 says 'In 2200' about weather run as mood gradients.
  2. Before the civic substrate was grownOld-infrastructure collapses happened twice a year before the civic substrate was grown.
  3. Twelve years agoThe ANCHOR-0 experiment: Elias's emotional signature captured as a civic foundation; R.S. mandated a venting safety protocol then, and wrote the compression protocols. 'Twelve years' recurs: the city has spent twelve years trying to forget the buried name, and the Archive engine has run for twelve years.
  4. Twenty yearsR.S. has been 'in her system' (Dr. Mills's) for twenty years.
  5. Eleven years ago (Elise)Dr. Mills still feels Elise's fingers eleven years later; Elise came to the Bronzeville clinic weekly for eleven months.
  6. Three years at the grief clinicDr. Mills ran the Bronzeville community grief clinic for three years, with eighteen-hour shifts, before the Directorate.
  7. Seven years agoThe South Concourse riots; R.S. designed the Manifest Grid's correction protocols that same year.
  8. The Great ErasureA past event in which the city erased the history of the Echo Gate plaza, which had been a congregation point for protests, celebrations and vigils. No date given.
  9. Eleven daysRenee had been visiting the crack in the Carbon Void tower for eleven days when Part 1 opens.
  10. The day the world endedHow Patrice looks when she reappears. No date given.
  11. Less than twelve hours before Cloud GateThe Sector Four Correction happened less than twelve hours before the morning Renee goes to Echo Gate.
  12. Three weeks before the prologuePart 2's narrator stood in the chrome monument on a Tuesday evening and heard a voice that should not have existed.
  13. This SundayThe Quiet Branch protocols are due to roll out across all sectors on Sunday.
  14. Null Pocket lossesMekhi loses ninety seconds in the bridge Null Pocket and forty-seven seconds at Coherence plaza.
  15. Thirty secondsThe window Renee needs, and gets, before the amber falls (Part 2, Chapter 20: 'Thirty Seconds').