1995

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1995 is the year Terminator 2 takes place according to the film itself. (John Connor's police file states that he is age 10.)

Events

• According to events established in TSSC "What He Beheld" Derek Reese is born.

June

• 8 (Saturday)
  • A T-800 from the futures arrives in Acton, California to protect John Connor.
  • A T-1000 from the future arrives in Los Angeles to kill John Connor.
  • The T-800 and John Connor free Sarah Connor from the Pescadero State Hospital and evade the T-1000.

• 9 (Sunday)
  • Sarah Connor attempts to kill Miles Bennett Dyson, the creator of Skynet, but Dyson instead helps them destroy Skynet.
  • The T-800 destroys the T-1000.
  • Sarah Connor destroys the T-800, since it is unable to self-terminate.

Background

Terminator 2 is set in the summer of 1995, on a Saturday and Sunday:

• John's police record gives his birth date and age establishing that it is 1995.
• Tarissa Dyson: "Miles, it's Sunday. You promised to take the kids to Raging Waters today."

The Terminator 2 novelization gives the latter date specifically as "June 9, 1992, Sunday", despite the fact that June 9th is not a Sunday in 1992 or 1995 (it is a Sunday in 1991 and 1996). Note, the script/novel writers made the same mistake in The Terminator, setting the weekdays on the dates when the script was written instead of when it takes place.

In Terminator 3 (set in June 2003 [DVD timeline] or 2004 [on-screen HUD]) John Connor states that Terminator 2 took place "ten years ago", which would set the film in 1993 or 1994.

The Terminator 3 DVD timeline states that Terminator 2 happened on June 8–9, 1995.

According to the back-story of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the events of Terminator 2 happened on June 8–9, 1997.