NITW Events are happening right now in the lore

[Sauce Hoss]

The game takes place In the fall and beat says a line about it being 2017 so yeah, it's happening rn.

[naii_]

Oh ♥♥♥♥, there are animal people IRL?

[StarMaverick]

There no animal people in real life, But Really I swear if something happen in some town in pennsylvania that is Simliar to the event of NITW, I boldly claim that ww3 is happen in 2077 and our future generations has to fight deathclaw to survive.

[Jukain]

Oh, poopie, I missed it. According to my calculations, Mae actually returned home last night. Today is the first full day in the game.

[Sauce Hoss]

Wow

[Realized]

It felt eerily fun that I played the game as it happened (today being a cold day of almost-winter when I played the last day).
But, the game released in February, that was spring, so if you were hoping for the devs to update the game as time went on or something like OneShot you'd be deluding yourself.