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Retell AI ships a feature called Current Time Awareness. 


You set a timezone, and the platform is meant to inject the current local date and time into the agent's context so it can answer questions like "what time is it?" or "what is today's date?" correctly.

In theory, it should just work. In practice, it does not.


I have tested this feature multiple times on the same agent. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it does not.