Gemini's time question

Could Gemini get right time on it self? It keep telling me that it’s 2024-06-28!

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The date it gave you is fiction. When it isn’t hallucinating some date, it will answer with something similar to this: “I do not have access to real-time information, including the current date and time. To get the current year, please check a calendar or use a device with a clock.”

A recent experiment using the cookbook at cookbook/examples/Search_Wikipedia_using_ReAct.ipynb at main · google-gemini/cookbook · GitHub indicates that the Gemini 1.5 models are using November 2023, their training data cutoff time, as ‘now’ when they are asked to use ‘now’ in a calculation. In that cookbook, the model is asked about the ages of the actors. As is, it gets the ages off by one year, making the actors younger, which is what they would be in 2023.

The model will accept any time the user specifies as ‘now’ through the prompt.