Thread:BEJT/@comment-27496405-20160429010148/@comment-26838855-20161027175413

I've seen Doctor Strange now :) No spoilers other than in the premise and trailers:

His accident is definitely 2016 or later - he has an award for winning best surgeon of 2016 or something like that, which clearly has the year on, and WHiH said he was still a surgeon in early May. In the WHiH post they are just starting to develop new technology - which is what Strange is doing at the beginning of the film. I think the beginning of the film with Strange as a surgeon is immediately after the WHiH in early-mid May. His crash is on the same day.

Strange then spends months healing. It's rainy and gloomy on the day he gives up and decides to go. I would guess late September 2016, 4 and a half months after his accident. He then travels to Kamar-Taj and spends a long time - never specified in the film, training.

This is where the rest of the film's timeframe comes into debate:
 * Mads Mikkelsen said he trains for nine months - this implies late June 2017
 * Christine says "after all these months" - this implies late February 2017
 * It is snowing between the two parts of the climactic fight - this implies mid-January 2017
 * The amount of training they show us is enough in my opinion to cover about four months - late January 2017
 * The most convenient for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would be mid-January 2017
 * Kaecilius stealing the pages from the book (around early May 2016) is implied to be a few months before Strange shows up (that fits with late September), and it takes him a while to translate the pages, but not too long, certainly not over a year, they are worried he will come soon. It is implied I think that it's only about six months between stealing the pages and attacking - late November 2016
 * Real time would suggest it is early November 2016

I think when it comes down to it, the most likely - what fits best is late January 2017, and that works nicely. So to summarise and pinpoint dates (I will use names for scenes that are not spoilery if you haven't seen the film but make sense if you have):
 * Opening scene - Sunday 8th May 2016
 * Surgeon and crash - Friday 13th May 2016
 * Argument in the apartment - Friday 23rd September 2016
 * Basketball court - Saturday 24th September 2016
 * Arrive in Kamar-Taj - Tuesday 27th September 2016
 * Training - Wednesday 28th September 2016-Wednesday 18th January 2017
 * Sanctum Sanctorum, astral fight and the Ancient One - Thursday 19th January 2017
 * Hong Kong - Friday 20th January 2017
 * Mid-credits scene - Sunday 30th April 2017, I think it has to happen after the end of AoS S4 for reasons I will go into in spoilers
 * Post-credits scene - Tuesday 13th June 2017, says it's been "several months"