Reminds me of this Krazam comedy sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ . Although I don't know the complexity of the ChatGPT tech stack.
ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
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Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's something extremely pervasive in modern design language. It actually infuriates me to no end. There are many many many instances where you should use numbers but we get vague bullshit descriptions instead. My classic example is that Samsung phones show charging as Slow, Fast, Very fast, Super fast charging. They could just use watts like a sane person. Internally of course everything is actually watts and variou…
It's all rather dumb, but your examples are really counterexamples, because a watt is sadly not something most people understand. One would at minimum need to have passed a physics class, and even that doesn't necessarily leave a person with an intuitive, visceral understanding of what a watt is, feels like, can do. I appreciate my older Samsung phone that just converts it into expected time until full charge. That's…
Most people can understand "bigger number better". They don't need the full theoretical derivation of the watt as a unit of power for that.
Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
#93ChatGPT 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.
It must be false, because if that was true, marketing people would not be putting numbers everywhere when naming products.
Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
#94ChatGPT 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?
We humans use timestamps in conversations to reference a persons particular state of reference at a given point in time.
Ie “remember on Tuesday how you said that you were going to make tacos for dinner”.
Would an llm be able to reason about its internal state? My understanding is that they dont really. If you correct them they just go “ah you right” they dont say “oh i had this incorrect assumption here before and with this new information i now understand it this way”
If i chatted to an llm and was like “remember on Tuesday when you said X” i suspect it wouldn't really flow.
Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
#95Claude's web interface has an elegant solution. When you roll the mouse over one of your prompts, it has the abbreviated date in the row of Retry/Edit/Copy icons, e.g. "Dec 17". Then if you roll the mouse over that date, you get the full date and time, e.g. "Dec 17, 2025, 10:26 AM".
This keeps the UI clean, but makes it easy to get the timestamp when you want it.
Claude's mobile app doesn't have this feature. But there is a simple, logical place to put it. When you long-press one of your prompts, it pops up a menu and one line could be added to it:
Dec 17, 2025, 10:26 AM [I added this here]
Copy Message
Select Text
Edit
Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
#96They must have a small team for the UI and probably don't consider it part of their goals for long-term profitability? UI enhancements like this are surprisingly slow for a company with this much funding
Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't it just simpler to believe that ChatGPT doesn't have timestamps because... they never added them? It wasn't in the original MVP prototype and they've just never gotten around to it? Surely there's enough people working in product development here to recognise this pattern of never getting around to fixing low-hanging fruit in a product.
They exist in the exported data. It'd require a weekend's worth of effort to roll out a new feature that gives users a toggle to turn timestamps off and on. It's trivial, but we will never see it. The people in charge of UX/UI don't care about what users say they want, they all know better.
Yeah… even in the Web interface if you crack open Developer Tools and look at the json, the timestamps are all there, available in the data model. Those values are simply not displayed to the end user.
I was looking to write a browser extension and this was a preliminary survey for me.
Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
#98ChatGPT to this day does not have a single simplest feature -- fork chat from message.
That's the thing even the most barebones open-source wrappers had since 2022. Probably even before because ERP stuff people played with predates chatgpt by like two years (even if it was very simple).
Gemini btw too.
Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
#99ChatGPT to this day does not have a single simplest feature -- fork chat from message. That's the thing even the most barebones open-source wrappers had since 2022. Probably even before because ERP stuff people played with predates chatgpt by like two years (even if it was very simple). Gemini btw too.
ChatGPT has conversation branches. Or do I misunderstand?
Just edit a message and it’s a new branch.
Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
#100ChatGPT 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?
It’s better for them if you don’t know how long you’ve been talking to the LLM. Timestamps can remind you that it’s been 5 hours: without it you’ll think less about timing and just keep going.