There is one thing that is in BG1 and 2 that is REALLY not in BG3 and that is a date system. When the game starts you have NO idea what day it is let alone the year. You really dont get any idea of what day it is till you get to Baldur's Gate and buy a newspaper. But you should at least have an idea of what month and year it is from the start. In BG1 you had a time icon in the bottom left of the UI that let you know what time of day it was and day even. But now you dont even have that. So you really have no scale of time.
