Why Can’t Chatgpt Tell Time?

ChatGPT, for illustration galore chatbots, is sounded arsenic a hyper-competent individual assistant. But among nan galore things that confuse it, 1 is peculiarly confounding: It cannot show time.

When I inquire ChatGPT what clip it is, I'm ne'er rather judge what I'll get. Sometimes, it tells maine it can't do it. "I don't person entree to your device's real-time timepiece aliases your location, truthful I can't show nan nonstop section clip for you," it wrote to maine astatine 4:15PM Eastern Standard Time astir a week ago. "But I do cognize today's day according to my system: 2025-11-20." (Bolded by ChatGPT, I assume, to make judge I didn't place nan things it was doing well.) Sometimes it asks …

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