I like to travel back and forth between Zion and the Mojave for crafting ingredients and then noticed for some reason that nearly a full year of game time was passing. Then I decided to figure out what was causing this, and it was travelling from the Mojave to Zion. Does anybody else experience this, and is there a way to fix it?

On your first trip with Jed Masterson it takes about 2 weeks to get to Zion, which makes sense. It's only in Utah. On your way back when they die at the beginning, at takes about a year to get back to the Mojave. People say it's a glitch and that it's too much time for devs to let players wonder what the Courier did during all of that time. Others say it was meant to happen, some really don't care.

I don't really care, the FO games aren't very dependent on days anymore. You can start a quest that says "Meet Johnny at 4 AM tonight." and you can wait a year and it will go as if it were the same day the entire game.

It's not intentional, it's supposed to be 2 weeks. I experience a 2 week transition and so do others, it simply makes no sense to have a year after the initial journey. However, you are right that the date doesn't really matter in gameplay. I prefer the date to be correct for immersion reasons however.

a year passes? I'm only up to Feb 2282 and I've been to Zion and back. and then there and back again by accident.

This happened to me too, it ends up taking me 11 months to get to Zion and back after the initial journey there. I posted about it before, but it doesn't seem like they're planning on fixing it.

Courier says he will fight the battle of Hoover Dam soon
1 Year passes, nothing
2 Years pass, still nothing

Oh my, how awkward it must be for the lore.

70 Years later
Courier says "Ok i'm ready to fight aganist them youngsters!"

maybe hes waiting for Caesar to die.

i entered the northern passage on may 17 and i still haven't made it to zion :sadvaultboy: