Setting start value of hit counter

[korarsenault]

As the title suggests I was wondering if a setting could be implemented that allows the user to start the value of the hit counter off at something over than zero. I've been using github reports to get analytics for the past few months and have tens of thousands of hits on my site. I want to represent that with a button like this but it only counts from the time the button was created - therefore starting at zero.

Would it be possible to set the start value of the hit counter