I’ve been using Sonnet 4 a lot since it was available. Whenever it tries to search for things online, it seems to always append “2024” to the search query. For example, it just ran a search query supabase cli macos homebrew 2024.
Explicitly telling it something like Remember, today is May 30 2025 seems to help. But I was curious if it’s worth including the user’s date/time directly in the Sonnet4 system instructions for the Agent/Chat modes?
yes, models are trained on old data, Sonet 3.7 used to add footer saying “2023”..
if you need them to be date/time aware I think there are MPC servers for that
But why can’t the Cursor team just include an extra line in the system instructions of the agent inserting the current date and time?
This is not a bug as there is no date in the prompt. In many cases it would cause issues where other dates are provided in prompt and attached files.
You could add your vote to related feature request about adding date.
You can also add a line to your shell init script at end
echo "Current date:" ; date