Override quicktabs tab titles
I finally got this to work by adding on my template.php: 

function YOURTHEME_quicktabs_alter($quicktabs) { 
if ($quicktabs-&gt;machine_name == 'YOUR_QTABS_NAME') { 
  $currYear = date('Y'); 
  for ($i = 0; $i &lt;= 3 ; $i++ ) { 
    $yr = ($currYear-$i); 
    $quicktabs-&gt;tabs[$i]['title'] = t($yr); 
  } 
} 


} 
}