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ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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Post by QuantumNomad_ »

intrasight wrote: post #5
Valid3840 wrote: post #2

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?

Sounds like an easy browser extension

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...

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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Post by bobse »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #7
Valid3840 wrote: post #2

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?

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

Should they be allowed anywhere near a computer?

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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Post by firesteelrain »

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

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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Post by baby »

firesteelrain wrote: post #16

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

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

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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Post by firesteelrain »

tomComb wrote: post #9

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.

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

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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Post by tom1337 »

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...
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