Google AI studio gives wrong date. Did anyone faced the issue. For example it says year as 2024 for this year which is 2026

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I use web version. Google AI studio gives wrong date. Did anyone faced the issue. For example it says year as 2024 for this year which is 2026.

I gave a thumps down and explained problem many times and no response.

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This is a feature, not a bug. :slight_smile: When you ask the AI for a date, it looks in its own database to find the date. It does not understand that it should look at the system clock instead. So the date you get is generally the date of the last update of the dataset used.

Yes, this is annoying. But it tends to be how AI works, as it prefers to look in the dataset first. AI models don’t live in the present but have a cut-off date. They know nothing of what happened afterwards.

How to solve it? Make sure your app asks for the system time instead. Let it synchronize it’s clock with the browser as it has no internal clock and might just hallucinate about the date.

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I had an opposite problem.

Found the since some version - the prompt is ‘hiddenly’ including some ‘here and now’ data, and l was looking for a way to control/disable those ‘meta, environmental data’.

Still no solution for that:

Model awareness of ‘environmental’ data - Google AI Studio - Google AI Developers Forum

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Thank you @Katje. This is really bothering me.

I am versioning my files based on the date they are modified.

Any idea what exact string I should use to calculate correctly. Sorry It must be very simple but I tried many ways but no success. Enabled grounding also but no use. It always gives date as 240224.

I need to get the string like YYMMDD.I I is the version number for the day.

Basically I need build version not run version.

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Teria como explicar melhor em texto? Eu tenho esse problema com data e dia da semana. Nem usando o system instruction consigo obter precisoes.
Em alguns prompts ele começa a alucinar!!

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I generally tell the AI that it should synchronize the clock with the clock from the browser. Or use the current system clock. But I don’t need the current date/time that ofyen in my apps and the AI seems to understand when it needs my local clock for things like a console log that my applications all have.