User blog comment:Yatanogarasu/Four Weeks Hiatus and Two Years Later/@comment-423448-20100826022904/@comment-423448-20100827012106

actually Sono, in response to that, i also realized that within the confines of the story itself, prior to the start of luffys training, the crew had been seperated for roughly around 1 month already (give or take). so add that into the mix and the math still works out. think about it; it's like we're experienceing a sort of "inversed/reversed" time flow where: 1 month OP time = 2 years real world, and 2 years OP time = 1 month real it's sort of a weird oxymoronic deal.... or my brain just works in bizarre ways, lol