Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-5679696-20131210220652/@comment-4839682-20140306135247

You are pretty much entirely correct. I actually had a debate on another site with someone about this. XD

Emma arrived in Storybrooke in October. It is still winter or spring in Storybrooke during "Going Home". We know this based on, among other factors, the clothing being worn throughout the series. No one has dropped their coats/jackets. (With an exception for Ruby, who we've seen wear shorts, but that's easily chalked up to her clothing style). There's also Jennifer Morrison's statement that each episode of season two is about a day, and we know that the first half of season three occurred in about a week.

There's still a large number of fans, however, who are fairly convinced significantly more time has passed...usually convinced by Henry turning eleven and that "Emma and Henry have the same birthday" theory that won't die.