At 6:30 this morning it was dark in the area of Virginia in which I reside. I am about 40 miles southwest of Alexandria, so March is out.

 

I'm going to go ahead and guess that they are not changing clocks for Daylight Savings time anymore.

 

Yesterday, it was 21 degrees at 6:30AM and dark leaving my home in Westminster for work. Westminster is 72 miles from Alexandria and more like 50 miles as the crow flies. While there are plenty of numb nut kids around here than wear "shorts" in the winter like Enid is wearing, bare arms blouses, t-shirts and shorts are not 100% out of the question, I see other reasons to clearly assume that this is fall. There are NO LEAVES on tree's in the Baltimore metro area at this time.

1. As Carl and Enid are running through the woods, we see whole dried leaves on the ground and no obvious signs of either Foliage, or new budding on the fauna. This should almost entirely rule out mid April when 6:30 AM will be light around here.
2. The fact that every fallen leaf on the ground is brown, but not largely decomposed to the point of black or at least reduced to small brown broken pieces of the leaves if it were a dry winter. These leaves have been roughly fallen for 1 month. I would give my best estimate as late November or early December.

 

Or maybe they lost track of the time so they made up a new time system to keep everyone in sync. Perhaps there is now an Alexandria Standard Time (AST).

 

If I remember correctly, it was daylight at 630 in Alexandria back when I was stationed at Ft Myer, VA. Which is basically Alexandria. I remember it being daylight during those morning runs through DC & Alexandria, at certain times of the year.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought there was a part in this episode where we could see Michonne's breath in the cold air. I'm not saying that has any bearing on the story, but I could swear I had seen it at one point.

 

When Joe and the claimers ambushed Rick, Carl, and Michonne, didn't Joe say something about "turning in early on New Years Eve?". Now obviously they probably could just be guessing as well, but given the time frame, late-February/early-March would make sense if that holds up.

 

On Talking Dead, Chandler Riggs said when they were filming the scene of Carl and Enid in the tree it was Halloween. He said the crew had on their Halloween costumes.

 

That fits with the comics. Also the trees arent budding, if it was March the trees would be budding.

 

I always thought he was making a joke by using that old saying. I'm guessing he wouldn't really know what specific day of the week, or year it would be.

 

On a related note, I seem to recall at some stage they showed a Y2K book sitting on a chair. Does this mean the show is based in the late 90's?

 

No, that was just a romance novel. Y2K =yolo2k = You only live once, to Kiss.

 

That would fit. I noticed in the scene in the woods with Michonne and Rosita that you could see their breath so it's cooler out.