199-. Some tombstones have the date-of-birth at the top, with the date-of-death a space or two below it, vetrically. So it was more than likely Danny's date-of-birth.
This is true.
There's still Chinese New Year going on in the first episode.
(Chinese New Year 2017 - January 28)
OR if it takes place in
2016:
(Chinese New Year 2016 - February 8)
The phone date is wrong. Chinese New Year disproves it.
Except it doesn't. We don't know that was necessarily a Chinese New Year celebration. It could have been any number of Chinese holidays. We never got any specific reference or dating that verifies it as definitively Chinese New Year.
Further, the most obvious clue that it's not January or February is the weather. New York City wouldn't have green trees, warm weather, etc in Jan/Feb. There's simply no way to ignore that.
All that said, the phone date of June 8 may NOT be accurate, as it featured a time of 9:34 AM (can't remember specific time but it was definitely shown as AM, which means time wasn't right since it obviously occurs at night).
That said there's no way it can be February either, as it's simply too warm, trees are green and in bloom, etc. It's clearly summertime in the show (so far anyway, I'm only up to Episode 4).
As for the car sticker, two-year renewal plans are a thing. I'll have to check for that specific scene, but brand new cars don't have to have renewal stickers after exactly two years (ie December). I'm fairly certain this show 1st season takes place in February-March 2016.
Also a good point, but I think you're ignoring the weather far too much, and assuming it's Chinese New Year when it could conceivably be any number of Chinese holidays or festivals that occur during summertime. Admittedly none occur in month of June, but there is one in early May (Duanwu festival) and July (Qixi and Ghost Festivals). That doesn't line up with timeline in show based on the cell phone date, but again the weather and clothing worn don't reflect a winter time setting as you're positing either. This is another one of those cases of the production staff not really paying attention to timeline aspects of the show.
But with the weather and cell phone date corresponding with summer, that's what I'm going with unless other evidence discounts it.
Also, there's a bit more evidence supporting a placement in summertime, 2016. In episode 4, at around 50:32 mark, Ward is reading newspaper with Dow Jones average of 17,703. In late June, 2016, in real world Dow was at 17,063. That's not really a huge link, but it does kind of support idea they were using real world realities to dress up show's prop details to reflect the summertime setting.
EDIT: I just remembered the "chasing them all winter" line from AoS 2x01. I think that expanding the events of S1 to 2014 would disprove or contradict that...So maybe AoS S1 should be kept in 2013, with dialogue mentioning "[#] years ago" being rough estimations.
Yep, that's why I had placed it as it is originally. Both the date in Winter Soldier and the "all winter" like in AoS 2x01. That indicates AoS Season 1 ran from Sept-Oct (or later) but ended before Winter began, which would be December of that year (2013). Therefore Talbot could've begun his pursuit in early winter and kept it up for at least 2-3 months, thus fulfilling the "all winter" line parameters.
