Another thought - if you treat a date as a relative variable related to a frame of reference (example, what if you defined the future to be a token value of tod

Another thought - if you treat a date as a relative variable related to a frame of reference (example, what if you defined the future to be a token value of today + N days, which means it is always calculated as a dynamic future date ahead of today), maybe we could reason about relative past and present using relative variable dates? Or maybe this is just crazy talk.