If you spend any meaningful amount of time working with Claude Code, you’ve likely noticed it doesn’t actually know what time it is beyond when you start the initial session.
It knows the date, more or less. But ask it to reason about “this morning” versus “last night,” or how long a build has been running, or whether it’s even the same day you started, and you’ll watch it guess. So you do what I did for weeks: you open a message with “it’s Thursday at 9am Eastern” just to give it its bearings.
That gets old. And it turns out the fix is small.
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