How to give Cursor AI the current date & time

If I’m using Cursor to help me scaffold out a new app, it sometimes creates Laravel migration files with the filename xxxx_xx_xx-migration-description, which is annoying, to say the least.

This is because it doesn’t know the current date or time, so as a quick hack until – I assume – they add it as a feature, I’m using a free API that returns a JSON representation of the current date and time.

Here is Europe/London:

{
  "utc_offset": "+01:00",
  "timezone": "Europe/London",
  "day_of_week": 3,
  "day_of_year": 283,
  "datetime": "2024-10-09T13:01:33.793864+01:00",
  "utc_datetime": "2024-10-09T12:01:33.793864+00:00",
  "unixtime": 1728475293,
  "raw_offset": 0,
  "week_number": 41,
  "dst": true,
  "abbreviation": "BST",
  "dst_offset": 3600,
  "dst_from": "2024-03-31T01:00:00+00:00",
  "dst_until": "2024-10-27T01:00:00+00:00",
  "client_ip": "xx.xx.xx.xx"
}Code language: JSON / JSON with Comments (json)

You can then tell Cursor in the Chat or the Composer. I’ve also added it to .cursorrules.

You can also add the URL as an @Doc, which is how I use it most.