New Copilot Cant Tell Time or Date?

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Does Copilot not support local time dates? Whenever I ask for todays date or time it responds with:
"I apologize, but as an AI language model, I don’t have real-time capabilities. Therefore, I am unable to provide you with the current time. Is there anything else I can assist you with?

AI-generated content may be incorrect"

One would assume toggling "Allow the AI to use its own general knowledge" meant AI would know the current date... Am I missing something?

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nicox 154 on at

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New Copilot Cant Tell Time or Date?

If you want to get the current time, you can just create a PowerFX to retrieve it.
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Umianta 285 on at

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New Copilot Cant Tell Time or Date?

By toggling "Allow the AI to use its own general knowledge," the AI will only provide information based on its training data and will not have access to real-time data.

For real-time information, you can use a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) based pattern, where you write rules or retrieve information from other systems and then pass this information to Generative Answers to format the response.

For more details, refer to the documentation on Microsoft Copilot Studio.

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