Every story was set a certain distance from the year it was made. Move the window to 2026 and the distance holds.
Remade Today takes the gap between when a work was made and when it was set, then applies that same gap from today. The numbers recompute every year. Nobody edits them.
1 work
The method, in one line
recalculated = 2026 + (year depicted − year released)
That is the whole thing. The longer version covers ranges, vague settings, works with more than one date, and what happens on 1 January.