Why can’t ChatGPT tell time?

ChatGPT, similar galore chatbots, is pitched arsenic a hyper-competent idiosyncratic assistant. But among the galore things that confuse it, 1 is peculiarly confounding: It cannot archer time.

When I inquire ChatGPT what clip it is, I'm ne'er rather definite what I'll get. Sometimes, it tells maine it can't bash it. "I don't person entree to your device's real-time timepiece oregon your location, truthful I can't archer the 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 marque definite I didn't place the things it was doing well.) Sometimes it asks …

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