How Long Are Your Days? Options

[Saffy]

I'm not sure if there's a topic on this issue or not, but if there is it's probably very old so whatever.

How long does a typical day in Harvest Moon or Rune Factory last for you? Do you try to rush through you days doing only what is necessary? Or do you make sure you put every bit of effort you can into each day to make it completely worthwhile?

I find my days tend to last between 20 and 30 minutes. I can usually get through two or three days an hour, which is why the games take forever for me to do. I realize I'm probably doing too much in my days and could be rushing, but to me I'm always fixed on needing to get more done. I suppose this is the result of poorer experiences when I first got into Harvest Moon and would rush through more of my days only to accomplish little. But I believe I'm taking it a bit too far and am instead not actually getting anywhere in the game.

So I'd like to start speeding up my days. Aside from just doing the basics, are there any suggestions?

[Alhanalem]

Some are about 10 minutes, other about 8 hours
Usually it's from 45m to 4h, it depends on the game and what I have to do...

RF 1 & 2: 2h - 7h
Normal HM's: 45m - 3h
Sunshine Islands (yeah, I got the game ¬¬"): 2h - 8h