Thread:CirUmeUela/@comment-27496405-20180307074410/@comment-2112031-20180319150232

Trying to find out when exactly the Empire State Building lights get turned on proved surprisingly difficult. However, I managed to find a news article stating that they turn on at 7 pm. The official FAQ states that the light are turned off daily at 2 am.

As such, the lights would have turned green at 7 pm on May 1 and would have been turned off at 2 am on May 2.

I didn't mean to imply that Coulson's line indicated Christmas time, only that it indicated a December setting. It's probably still early December, since there doesn't appear to be any significant time jump from the previous episode.