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* ''Film/TheGirlFromMonday'': The setting is a near future US, but aside from VR helmets there's no visible change in what can be seen. Drastic social change has occurred however, but it's not very obvious.

* ''Literature/TheLongEarth'' was published in 2012 and puts the discovery of the "stepping box" and the start of the plot in 2015.

** ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'': Released in June 1984, takes place in Fall 1984 (as evidenced by a USA Today headline in the GoodTimesMontage dated October 8, 1984).

* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' was released on June 8, 1984, but takes place in Fall 1984, as evidenced by a USA Today headline in the GoodTimesMontage dated October 8, 1984.

** ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'': Released in June 1984, takes place in Fall 1984 (as evidenced by a USA Today headline dated October 8, 1984).

* ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'' was filmed in 1982 but a poster for the 1988 Superbowl hangs on the childrens' bedroom wall. Notable for being HarsherInHindsight as the movie's main child actress, Heather O’Rourke got sick and died on the day of the 1988 Superbowl. The sequels ''Film/PoltergeistIITheOtherSide'' (1986) and ''Film/PoltergeistIII'' (1988), both set some years later, would therefore have to take place in the 1990s.

* The first seven ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' movies came out between 2004 and 2010. The actual time scale the movies cover is less than two years, with the next movie sometimes continuing immediately from where the previous ended. Eventually the franchise established that the Jigsaw killings started in the Chinese Year of the Pig, which would have to be 2007, supported by the 2008 recession factoring into the story of ''Saw VI'', which came out in 2009.

* ''Anime/SummerWars'', released in 2009, set in 2010.

* ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'' was filmed in 1982 but a poster for the 1988 Superbowl hangs on the childrens' bedroom wall. Notable for being HarsherInHindsight as the movie's main child actress, Heather O’Rourke got sick and died on the day of the 1988 Superbowl.

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' aired in 2000, but was set in 2002 (the English dub has it set in 2003). Justified in that it was a "next generation" sequel and enough years had to pass in-universe to allow the cast of the first series to grow a few years.

** In ''Film/BillAndTedFaceTheMusic'' (released and set in 2020), the Great Leader's comment about the concert happening 25 years ago would put ''Bogus Journey'' as happening in 1995.

* With ''Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter'' establishing that ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'' took place in 1979, that means that ''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'' (1981), set five years later, and ''Film/FridayThe13thPartIII'' (1982), which takes place immediately after, take place in 1984. With ''The Final Chapter'' picking up immediately afterwards, it does line up with its release of 1984. However, ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning'' (1985) and ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'' (1986) both feature Tommy Jarvis, who was a child in ''The Final Chapter'', as an adult, meaning that they take place at least into the 1990s. Then ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIITheNewBlood'' (1988) has another TimeSkip, pushing it around the new millennium. ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan'' (1989) and ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'' (1993), which take place an indeterminate amount of time afterwards, would have to take place at least around the turn of the millennium, despite Times Square in the former film prominently featuring an advertisement for ''Film/Batman1989''.

* ''Literature/IAmLegend'', published in 1954, opens in 1976 and ends in 1979. Despite the large time difference, there's no indication of any technological or social changes taking place between the time of the book's publication and the plague that destroyed civilization.

* Creator/MaryShelley’s Literature/TheLastMan takes place in the late 21st century, however the world seems to have little advancements in technology, science, politics or society that distinguishes it from the early 19th century.

Next Sunday A.D. is almost exactly the same as ThePresentDay. Same politics, same technology, same brands, same popular culture... the only difference is that when you glance at the calendar, it shows a date about a year or two after the series was released. Writers often set a series in Next Sunday A.D. to excuse the presence of more advanced technology (space colonies, robots, time travel, etc.) alien [[FirstContact contact]] or [[AlienInvasion invasion]], the collapse of global government, or whatever [[OneBigLie noticeable change the work relies on.]]

Compare TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, a more futuristic near-future setting where the difference in time frame is more apparent. ([[LampshadeHanging Yes]], that [[NonIndicativeName should be the other way around]]. No, it won't be fixed.) Contrast PresentDayPast, for works that look almost the same as the present, but take place in the past.

* ''Literature/ColdComfortFarm'' (written 1938) is set in an indeterminate future where Creator/ClarkGable is dead, there are {{Video Phone}}s and {{Flying Car}}s, and there was a war with Nicaragua back in the 1940s. This is all background stuff that has nothing to do with what the book is actually ''about'', though.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/PebbleInTheSky'': The majority of the story takes place in the far-flung future of [[AlternativeCalendar 827 Galactic Era]]. Joseph Swartz, a time-traveller from [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture the modern day]], is at least fifty thousand years displaced.

* Lampshaded in the ''WesternAnimation/StrokerAndHoop'' Christmas special. Stroker and Hoop travel forward in time to meet a future version of Coroner Rick, and though he knows the names of some new things that are happening in the world, he doesn't understand any of them because he's an old coot.

** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E130The7thIsMadeUpOfPhantoms The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms]]" aired on December 6, 1963 but the present day scenes take place on June 25, 1964.

Compare TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, a more futuristic near-future setting where the difference in time frame is more apparent. ([[LampshadeHanging Yes]], that [[NonIndicativeName should be the other way around]]. No, it won't be fixed.) Contrast TwentyMinutesIntoThePast, for works that look almost the same as the present, but take place in the past. (Yes, to be consistent it should be ''Last'' Sunday A.D. No, it won't be fixed.).

Compare TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, a more futuristic near-future setting where the difference in time frame is more apparent. ([[LampshadeHanging Yes]], that [[NonIndicativeName should be the other way around]]. No, it won't be fixed.) Contrast TwentyMinutesIntoThePast, for works that look almost the same as the present, but take place in the past. (Yes, to be consistent it should be ''Last'' Sunday A.D. No, it won't be fixed.)
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