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130•birdculture•2h ago•73 comments

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116•todsacerdoti•2h ago•101 comments

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21•giuliomagnifico•5d ago•11 comments

ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

https://community.openai.com/t/timestamps-for-chats-in-chatgpt/440107?page=3
74•Valid3840•2h ago•46 comments

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56•saisrirampur•6d ago•5 comments
Open in hackernews

ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

https://community.openai.com/t/timestamps-for-chats-in-chatgpt/440107?page=3
73•Valid3840•2h ago

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Valid3840•2h ago
ChatGPT still does not display per-message timestamps (time of day / date) in conversations.

This has been requested consistently since early 2023 on the OpenAI community forum, with hundreds of comments and upvotes and deleted threads, yet remains unimplemented.

Do any of you could think of a reason (UX-wise) for it not to be displayed?

intrasight•2h ago
Sounds like an easy browser extension
QuantumNomad_•1h ago
Someone has already made a browser extension for Chrome to show the timestamps.

https://github.com/Hangzhi/chatgpt-timestamp-extension

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kdjfhglijhebcchcfkk...

noisem4ker•1h ago
For Chrome and Firefox.
worldsavior•35m ago
Because he didn't say Firefox so he deserves downvotes?
Workaccount2•2h ago
Regular people hate numbers.

Not a joke. To capture a wide audience you want to avoid numbers, among other technical niceties.

bobse•1h ago
Should they be allowed anywhere near a computer?
falcor84•1h ago
I actually agree there's an issue here. I feel we've been dumbing down interfaces so much, to the extent that people who in previous generations would barely write and who wouldn't affect anyone outside their close friends and family, now having their voice algorithmically amplified to millions. And given that the algorithms care only about engagement, rather than eloquence (let alone veracity), these people end up believing that their thoughts are as valid regardless of substance, and that there's nothing they could gain by learning numeracy.

EDIT: It's not a new issue, and Asimov phrased it well back in 1980, but I feel it got much worse.

> Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'.

smelendez•1h ago
Make it a toggle then, like a lot of popular chat apps?
Y_Y•1h ago
There's only one thing they hate more than numbers...
vasco•1h ago
> Regular people hate numbers

What does this even mean

Qem•28m ago
> Do any of you could think of a reason (UX-wise) for it not to be displayed?

I can imagine a legal one. If the LLM messes big time[1], timestamps could help build the case against it, and make investigation work easier.

[1] https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/new-study...

chasing0entropy•2h ago
It's ugly, why it isn't at least exposed as an option to enable for power users would make me look at some advantage time stamps would give to an inference scraper or possibly their service APIs don't have contemporaneous access to the metadata available from the web interface.
PunchTornado•1h ago
Surprised that people still use chatgpt
logicallee•1h ago
what do you use?
andai•1h ago
For conversational use, which is the main way these things are used, I personally found Claude to be the best.

Claude Sonnet is my favorite, despite occasionally going into absurd levels of enthusiasm.

Opus is... Very moody and ambiguous. Maybe that helps with complex or creative tasks. For conversational use I have found it to be a bit of a downer.

baby•1h ago
Personally I use all of them all the time and chatgpt is still on top
andai•1h ago
Could you elaborate on your experience with the different ones? What you use them for and how they compare. Thanks
serf•40m ago
having been a customer of Anthropic and Google at varying times, it's not surprising to me in the least.

As the companies sprint towards AGI as the goal the floor for acceptable customer service has never been lower. These two concepts are not unrelated.

tomComb•1h ago
You can see a chat timestamp when it shows up as a search result.

I’m not suggesting this is sufficient, I’m just noting there is somewhere in the user interface that it is displayed.

firesteelrain•1h ago
There is something wrong with the time embedded/hidden. I don’t show it as accurate at all. Maybe they are using it for some other reason
bravetraveler•1h ago
Surely an intern over there can prompt a toggle/hover event
firesteelrain•1h ago
Just a note to those adding the time to the personalization response. It’s inaccurate. If you have an existing chat, the time is near the last time you had that chat session active. If you open a new one, it can be off by + or - 15 minutes for some reason
baby•1h ago
I was using a continuous conversation with chatgpt to keep track of my lifts, and then I realize it never understand what day I'm talking to it, like there is no consistency, it might as well be the date of the first message you sent
brap•1h ago
I think that’s exactly why they’re not including timestamps. If timestamps are shown in the UI users might expect some form of “time awareness” which it doesn’t quite have. Yes you can add it to the context but I imagine that might degrade other metrics.

Another possible reason is that they want to discourage users from using the product in a certain way (one big conversation) because that’s bad for content management.

malfist•1h ago
What purpose does logging your lifting with chatgpt achieve?
cj•46m ago
It’s an incredible tool for weightlifting. I use it all the time to analyze my workout logs that I copy/paste from Apple Notes.

Example prompts:

- “Modify my Push #2 routine to avoid aggravating my rotator cuff”

- “Summarize my progression over the past 2 months. What lifts are progressing and which are lagging? Suggest how to optimize training”

- “Are my legs hamstring or glute dominant? How should I adjust training”

- “Critique my training program and suggest optimizations”

That said, I would never log directly in ChatGPT since chats still feel ephemeral. Always log outside of ChatGPT and copy/paste the logs when needed for context.

dnpls•20m ago
That's brilliant. I have an injury for a while now, and I change my routine on the fly at the gym, depending on whether I still feel pain or not. Much better if I change it before the next time I go, so I don't waste time figuring out what to replace.
cmgbhm•7m ago
I did this planning with Gemini and track in Google Sheets (really stinks for mobile)

Cardio goals, current FTP, days to train, injuries to avoid

3 lift day programs with tracking 8w progressive Loop my PT into warm ups

Alternate suggestions.

Use whole sheet to get an overview of how the last 8w went and then change things up

serf•45m ago
presumably the same thing that logging anything with an LLM achieves : plain language into structured text quickly.
tom1337•1h ago
What annoys me even more is that ChatGPT doesn't alert you, when you near the context window limit. I have a chat which I've worked on for a year and now hit the context window. I've worked around this by doing a GDPR download of all messages, re-constructed the conversation inside a markdown file and then gave that file to claude to create a summarized / compacted version of that chat...
kingforaday•1h ago
Just like on a piece of hardware that doesn't have a RTC, we rely on NTP. Maybe we just need an NTP MCP for the agents. Looks like there are several open-source projects already but I'm not linking to them because I don't know their quality or trust.
mv4•1h ago
Other than the potential liability, cost may also be a factor.

Back in April 2025, Altman mentioned people saying "thank you" was adding “tens of millions of dollars” to their infra costs. Wondering if adding per-message timestamps would cost even more.

cj•58m ago
Presumably you could decouple timestamps from inference.

I would be very surprised if they don’t already store date/time metadata. If they do, it’s just a matter of exposing it.

stainablesteel•55m ago
this is actually hilarious, also easily fixable if they just respond to that with a pre-determined

if response == 'thank you': print('your welcome')

g947o•49m ago
I think "thank you" are used for inference in follow-up messages, but not necessarily timestamps.

I just asked ChatGPT this:

> Suppose ChatGPT does not currently store the timestamp of each message in conversations internally at all. Based on public numbers/estimates, calculate how much money it will cost OpenAI per year to display the timestamp information in every message, considering storage/bandwidth etc

The answer it gave was $40K-$50K. I am too dumb and inexperienced to go through everything and verify if it makes sense, but anyone who knows better is welcome to fact check this.

nacozarina•6m ago
it’s wild ppl accept his rhetoric at face value
abadar•1h ago
I built a single page website that copies the current time to my clipboard and I paste it into my messages. It's inconvenient and I don't do it irregularly.

I'll have to look into the extension described in the link. Thank you for sharing. It's nice to know it's a shared problem.

roschdal•59m ago
I have had enough of this Evil AI. Never again.
stainablesteel•56m ago
may as well make a model stamp too, to remember which one was responding
journal•53m ago
You only need that info if you know you need it in your rag. Over the last two years of usage I don't recall where I'd need those timestamps but I know there are cases. Still, this would have to be an option because otherwise it would be waste of tokens. However, we have to consider they are competing for the quality AND length of the response even if a shorter response is better. There's a pretzel of considerations when talking about this.
cj•37m ago
Imagine you started having back pain months ago and you remember asking ChatGPT questions when it first started.

Now you’re going to the doctor and you forgot exactly when the pain started. You remember that you asked ChatGPT about the pain the day it started.

So you look for the chat, and discover there are no dates. It feels like such an obvious thing that’s missing.

Let’s not over complicate things. There aren’t that many considerations. It’s just a date. It doesn’t need to be stuffed into the context of the chat. Not sure why quality or length of chat would need to be affected?

gukoff•10m ago
Timestamps are conversation metadata and don't need to be fed to the LLM and require tokens.
phyzix5761•53m ago
Is it possible they're reusing responses which are close enough by some factor? Maybe this is why exposing a timestamp won't be beneficial for them.
throw03172019•23m ago
New startup idea: ChatGPT but with timestamps. $100M series A