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If you watch a two-hour movie, how much time passes in the movie? That ranges from one night (Die Hard) to fifty years (a biography). The first episode of Futurama lasts a thousand years, and the first episode of 60 lasts 60 minutes.
Some game sessions cover a month of downtime. Some game sessions cover a minute of combat. Time passes however quickly or slowly the GM and players decide.
You can also see the answers on your previous thread.
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The only part of the game that actually has a direct measurement of time is that a combat round lasts 6 seconds of in-game time.
But a combat round definitely does not last 6 seconds of real time. It is instead probably the most real time consuming part of the game. Four rounds = 24 seconds can take over an hour of real time to play.
But downtime is measured in days. You can have 6 days of in-game time played in a couple of minutes of real world time as everyone at the table just has to announce what they are doing, and make one or maybe two checks such as an earn income check, or a learn a spell check.
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It needs to be relative to the story you are telling. One round of combat lasts six seconds, so if it takes you an hour to play through that the conversion is steep. But then it might only take a minute to say, "you all camp for the night and wake up the next morning". The story takes as much time as it needs or as little time as you want.
Where is this question coming from? Is this that nonsense from that other game (DnD 4e I think, but I might be misattributing this) where the book tells you to advance one day in game after every single real world hour spent playing? Without commenting on the overall quality of any other games, I will say that specific idea is ridiculous. There is no prescribed conversion for real world to in game time and it will take a great deal of effort to convince me that one is required or desired.
If I have missed your point could you be more specific about what you want to know?
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1 combat round = 6 seconds.
The calander in Golarion is parallel to ours in terms of keeping the current time. So right now it is the 5th month of 4723 in Golarion. 2 years ago it was 4721 in Golarion.
Beyond that, as others have said, it is subjective based on the pace of the story. Downtime may be a day, month, year, etc.