feat(system-prompt): add formatted date with day of week#1915
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Fixes openclaw#1897 The system prompt now includes the full formatted date (e.g., "Sunday, January 25th, 2026 — 12:40 PM") above the timezone, so agents no longer have to guess what day it is. 🤖 AI-assisted: Generated with Claude Opus 4.5 📋 Testing: Lightly tested (lint passes, manual review) ✅ I understand what this code does
conroywhitney
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Jan 29, 2026
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Heads up — #3658 proposes a smarter approach that preserves the caching benefit from 66eec29: Instead of re-adding the timestamp to the system prompt (which undoes the cache optimization), the gateway would inject timestamps into incoming messages for TUI/web clients — the same pattern that Discord/Telegram/Signal channel plugins already use. This keeps the system prompt stable/cacheable while giving agents timestamp context from every message. Seems like the better path forward vs. reverting the optimization. See also: the idea of adding a |
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Closing in favor of #3677 |
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Summary
Fixes #1897
The system prompt now includes the full formatted date (e.g., "Sunday, January 25th, 2026 — 12:40 PM") above the timezone, so agents no longer have to guess what day it is.
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buildTimeSection()insrc/agents/system-prompt.tsto accept and displayuserTimeuserTimevalue was already being computed byformatUserTime()— it just wasn't being passed throughBefore
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Testing
npm run lint✅ passes