I'll time skip for the sake of convenience, but that usually only happens when I'm with a set group of friends and we've all agreed upon it. If it's a character that normally does impromptu RP within the community I'll go on a day by day basis, in that one day in world is one day in our world. However I've skipped around six years before, because it was more convenient. Hell I even skipped twenty once because I wanted to see what the children of our characters were like and it gave way to whole new RP opportunities. That said, again, I really only am willing to do it with private - never going to go outside of a singular group of people - RP. With public RP I feel it just gets too messy if you skip more than, say, a month at a time - because a lot of people won't agree to it and then you have everyone on a different timescape. <-- even more so than usual.
