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Huh, I just assumed Gemini was getting timestamps and Claude isn't. That's kind of funny that it uses the web search tool to get the time. Claude on the web has a user_time_v0 tool and it seems to work:

It's 12:27 PM on Friday, May 22, 2026, in your timezone (PDT, UTC-7). Just past noon — lunchtime in Redmond.

(The city is correct too)

Claude Code said it doesn't have this tool but would just run the date command if it needed the time. Also, it only knows the time zone because of my CLAUDE.md.