When asking cursor to add the current date to documents it used an incorrect date

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A common problem with all LLMs is date awareness:

Cursor needs to be aware of the current date

When the models analyse logs for troubleshooting, they often consider recent dates as ‘future dates’ and an issue that needs to be resolved, presumably due to their training data cut-off date. If Cursor were aware of the current date/time, this would prevent a lot of wasted energy fighting the model to assure it of the current date. (I’ve had Claude hardcode the date I’ve given it to appease me, as it certainly did not believe me!) We have some workarounds using MCP servers (Simple MCP server …

There are 2 workarounds; a datetime MCP, or I prefer requesting that the model uses the terminal to get the current date.

I have noticed Sonnet 4.5 doesn’t seem to present the same date issues as other models.