Displaying a future date

olympusmons

Using Sugarcube 2, how should I go about displaying a certain future date based on a variable that changes as play advances? For example, if my story was written to start today, August 30 2016, and advance one day per turn, how can I display "September 2 2016" when $turn == 4?

I don't need the start date to change; that'll be set. I'm just wanting an in-game calendar that advances with play. Past discussions of date and time have focused on the actual date and/or time, not an in-game progression.

ConerNSFW

I had a somewhat similar problem in my game, I wanted to display the date on the left in the sidebar, to do this I made a "StoryCaption" passage and put the following code into there.

<<if $day == 1>>Monday
<<elseif $day == 2>>Tuesday
<<elseif $day == 3>>Wednesday
<<elseif $day == 4>>Thursday
<<elseif $day == 5>>Friday
<<elseif $day == 6>>Saturday
<<elseif $day == 7>>Sunday
<</if>>

<<if $day gte 8>><<set $day == 1>><</if>>

and whenever I wanted to progress the game forward I would write:

<<set $day += 1>>

I guess you could do the same thing and replace the days of the week with the specific dates.