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^^ Meredith was born in 1978, Ellis had Maggie in 1983 when Meredith was 5. Lexie was born in 1984 but she skipped a year in school and Molly was born in 1986.

The timeline has been a bit all over the place but if you ignore the couple of random statements of the date you can make sense of it all.

The show starts July 1st 2007 and Meredith is 28/29.

Season 3 ends on July 1st 2008 and Lexie is 24.

Season 6 covers most of a year. There's some jumps such as the first and I think 10th episode covering several weeks but its mostly 2009-2010 and is now actually in real time.

Season 7 - 10 are also in real time as far as actual years go but not months.

Season 11 is in real time until they skip forward a year.

Season 12 is where it gets a bit confusing again. 11x24 - 12x08 literally take place across about a month. Then 6 weeks pass in Silence... April would've discovered her pregnancy around about August 2016 and given birth around about April 2017.

Season 13 takes place over a VERY short time. The entire season spans about 3 - 4 months which does actually make sense when you think about it. Amelia and Owens fall out felt like it was going on far too long as did Bailey and Webbers, Harriet barely aged and they still addressed that Stephanie had had no time off to deal with Kyle (mentioned exactly a year after he died on screen).

Season 14 picks up exactly where 13 left off and behind the scenes pics show that Jo is still in light blue but we've already been told that they're about to pick their new attendings so I am guessing similarly to season 10 we will spend 3-4 episodes in line with the past season and then go into the new year.

In doing the slowed down pace across those two seasons they've now bought the show back to real-time as Season 14 would be set from 2017-2018.