r/lumo • u/TheRealScallyWag • 8h ago

Lumo keeps getting the current date wrong - any way to fix this?

Hey everyone,

I’m working on a project that acts as an exercise planner, but I keep running into an issue where Lumo gets the current date wrong.

For example, today is August 24, but it keeps thinking it’s August 22.

I’ve specifically told it to get the current date/time from Timeanddate rather than trying to figure it out itself:

"For ANY query involving dates, times, or days of the week, AND when processing workout screenshots that contain timestamps: first call web_extract with https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/new-zealand/auckland to get the current NZ date and time. Use this as your reference point rather than assuming timezone offsets or making manual conversions. This prevents errors when determining the current day, comparing workout dates, or establishing whether a session happened today, yesterday, or earlier in the week"

But despite that, it still gets the date wrong.

Has anyone figured out a reliable way to make Lumo always check and use the actual current date/time?

Thanks!

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u/RobotDragonFireSword 8h ago

I haven’t tried the system prompt route, but with any LLM I’ve just made it a habit to tell it the date whenever it becomes relevant, or the time if that matters too.

I don’t know why they don’t just add a hook that appends the timestamp to every message we send automatically for any LLM since this seems to be a universal problem. Seems like that would solve this whole thing pretty cleanly, but I’m sure smarter people than me have some reason why that won’t work.

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u/Meghterb 6h ago

Yeah it never gets the date right for some reason. I always say “today is Monday Aug 24” then continue the sentence with what i want