Talk:Moons/@comment-25563752-20191013191745

It seems that most people seem to thin that a "moon" is a month, but I don't think so. The characters usually say "moon" for passages of time, but they sometimes say "month" too (ex. when Rarity lost her mane, at the end of the episode when she asked if it looked normal, AJ replied "Yes, it's been months"). This leads me to believe that a moon isn't a full lunar cycle (ie. a month), but rather the period from new moon to full moon. Basically the waning period is a single "moon", and the waxing period is another "moon".

I'd also like to bring up how this relates to Equestria Girls. The writer said that Rainbow Rockstakes place 6 moons after the first EQG movie. I've always had this theory that time in Equestria goes by twice as ast as it does in the human world. Based on when the EQG movies and specials take place in the MLP timeline, it seems like a lot more time has passed by in Equestria than it has in the human world, about twice as much time. This would also explain why Twilight, Sunset, and Starlight become teenagers in the human world despite being in their late twenties in Equestria, their ages change to match what they would be in the human world. Anyway if 6 moons take place between the first EQG movie and rainbow rocks, that about 3 months. And if time moves at half speed in the human world, that means it was only about 1 1/2 months. Seems accurate to me.