Eastenders: Why can't the writers get the timelines right?

It's like when Dot went out on Tuesday's episode and it was daylight then by the time she got home it was dark. Also, Tanya got married at daytime and heard about Max and Abi's accident then by the time she got to the hospital it was dark. I thought Jim got shipped off quite quickly and Whitney baked a cake in record time in Thursday's episode! Timelines are very flexible in Soapland I don't think they know the concept of having 24 hours in a day!