Get time of the day

[tinmarino]

It can be useful for the AI to know today's date, especially to prepare the parameters for other Function Callings. For example when asking "what are the trending news of yesterday". Beside, it is fast to implement and works all the time.

Note that I left a free parameter for the AI strftime_format, as the seconds since the Unix Epoch format is best suited for compatibility and equations.

Code

from instructor import OpenAISchema
from pydantic import Field
from datetime import datetime  # Get current time

class Function(OpenAISchema):
    """ Return local system time of the day. Calling in Python print(datetime.datetime.now()) and potentially format it with strftime(strftime_format) """
    strftime_format: str = Field(
        None,
        example="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",
        description="Optional strftime format to format the datetime. To get the number of seconds since the Epoch, call with strftime_format=%s"
    )
    class Config:
        title = "print_local_time"

    @classmethod
    def execute(cls, strftime_format: str = None) -> str:
        current_time = datetime.now()
        if strftime_format:
            return current_time.strftime(strftime_format)
        else:
            return str(current_time)

Example

sgpt "What time is it"
@FunctionCall print_local_time()
2024-07-21 20:46:55.904390
The current local time is 20:46:55 on July 21, 2024.