Groups of 24 hours of our lives

In today's episode of Days of Our Lives, Sammy and E. J. get a ransom note for their baby, Sydney, dated January 5, 2010. The ransom note also has geographical coordinates: 39 point something North, I don't remember what West.

So this shows that time on Days of Our Lives flows in parallel with real life time. But you wouldn't know it from most episodes, in which almost every scene ends with a character staring blankly at the character who just asked her/him a question, and many scenes begin with a confirmation that the plot thread has not really moved forward since its previous appearance in the syuzhet.