Essential internal time awareness with optional user display

This feature is critical for Lumo to function correctly, not just for aesthetics. Currently, Lumo often lacks context on the current time, date, or timezone, leading to awkward moments (e.g., wishing someone "good night" in the afternoon) or errors in web searches (checking opening hours or news timestamps incorrectly).

Proposal:

1. Internal Awareness: Ensure every response is generated with accurate access to the current local time and date. This should be automatic and invisible to the user by default.

2. Optional Visibility: Add a simple toggle in settings to display a timestamp with responses for users who need it (for referencing past conversations, bug reporting, or document tracking). Users should be able to choose the format if displayed.

This solves the technical blind spots (referencing, debugging, web accuracy) without forcing a technical look on the conversational flow. The magic remains intact for those who don't want it, while the system gains the precision it needs to be truly helpful.

I’d like it but only as an option to toggle on and off in settings.

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It is an essential feature and fairly easy to implement

YES, and allow us to choose the format of the date & time: 2026.05.14(Thu.).15:35h; 3:35㏘ of (Thursday) 14 May 2026; Thursday the 14th of May 2026 at 3:35㏘; Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 3:35㏘; etc. Let us choose!

I want to add 4 more critical factos why this is critical to implement

1. reference number = we can clearly tell lumo "what i talked with you at x hour today" = lumo can more easilly tell where or what we are refering to

2. when lumo helps us with documents, emails, so on, a timestamp can be inserted

3. History log, as we all know Proton keeps working on Lumo and sometimes there are bugs, this can help keep track of dates, aka if some issues are actually new bugs that happened after an y new update. And of course this also means we can report more easilly bugs and similar.

4. websearch elements, since currently lumo, at least when i tested, is giving me mutiple random times, hours, timezones, even different dates. AND THE WORSE: if i check manually, all websites Lumo used as a source, are correct, meaning that lumo is reading an "old" entry or maybe there are anti bot mesurements? i am not sure honestly. Ideea is that due to cutoffs and similar, if lumo does web search, due to the time stamp, lumo will know where we are (time zone due to time VS randomly guessing), if a shop or somehting we plan is open, will close, etc, and of course, anything like outdated information vs up to date (websearch result that is not in the training data).

Timestamping can also solve problems with the AI model not having any idea what time it is currently or what date it is, provided that the AI model checks them before responding.