Apologies for late response. Brand new to the game. Decided to answer in case anyone else runs across this. This works as of version 0.150.3.

Using devcommands type:
skiptime 1
You do lose a second (big deal) but it does show the day number.

I accidentally discovered by trying to figure out when the message appears. To get just before the message appears you need to:
tod .24
then wait a few seconds.

I got tired of waiting and wanted to see if there was a way to speed up time or skip time or something...

btw: it seems like the system keeps track of your new time and your old time. Because if you use tod -1, you go back to where you were in time before your first tod command.