Thread:TomasDerksen/@comment-26838855-20170424195504/@comment-26838855-20170424210628

Thank you for the leniency over Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I do understand the real time policy, but I do want to point out that there is a huge case for Winter Soldier being January.
 * Seeds has to be in 2013, "24 years" after events in 1989. The Chase follows very soon after, then leads into T.R.A.C.K.S., which leads into T.A.H.I.T.I., and then Yes Men picks up a few days later. There would have to be a 3½-month gap between Yes Men and End of the Beginning, which doesn't fit with the fact that they say Deathlok and Garrett have been chasing Clairvoyant leads only for weeks.
 * In Civil War, Sam says that Natasha had the government hearings "a few years back," which implies about 3 years, but later says that he and Steve have been searching for Bucky for "2 years." From this, 2 years and 5 months since Winter Soldier is a very solid suggestion to fit both. January 2014 also fits as "2 years" after Avengers (1 year, 8 months, and 2014-2012=2), as Johansson stated.
 * January is the chosen month as it is as early as possible to fit much better with Talbot's statement that he chased Coulson's team for an "entire winter," while still fitting these other previously mentioned statements. January-May fits "winter" much better (as mid-winter to spring), with him referring to the rest of the winter, and the fact that it is now turning to summer. It fits it a lot better than the current April-October, which is spring, summer, autumn/fall.
 * Moving Winter Soldier avoids the current clash with Maria Hill's birthday
 * Ward states that he lived with Coulson's team for "months," which works much better as 4 months than 7.
 * In early May 2015, Shadows was "one year ago." Late May works best with the "entire winter" comment as winter has come to a resolute close recently and it is not yet summer. So Shadows is late May, and it has been "months" since the end of Season 1 - not a month and a half.