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Before you reply to this, please: Google knows my location. Please, for the love of God, stop replying as if you think that Google does not know my location.

please check once again

It's prevalent. This is happening across almost every public-facing query service. Handing a question to an LLM with varying levels of cache and backend load is going to deliver inconsistent results, and there's not a universal fix yet, so app designers have to stop doing this.

You can set your google to do exactly this, as I have: search for directions to permanently set your searches to not include AI or "ALL" and you'll get a list of websites, just like you used to. It takes a few minutes the first time, but then you don't have to think about it again.

I asked what the title of the finale song from the musical "Cats" is called. It told me it was "Memory." That's the song that closes act 1. It's reprised near the end of the show, but there are still two songs after that.

Weird, it tells me when sunset when I ask exactly the same question.

"it's complicated"

Last time I tried to use Google for a time zone conversion, the AI overview told me that CST and PST are one hour apart 🤷‍♀️

Google is shitty at a lot of things, but I call bullshit on this. Use the properly worded prompt, and if your location isn't blocked it will tell you the time, to the minute. 8:22pm here.

Try using an additional time range area and include it in the prompt, like gmt, cst, or utc, etc... it will respond better when given a little nudge.

that’s what the weather app is for

Well, we wanted computers that were more and more like a human. I can't tell you what time the Sun sets either. Bloody Hell.

At least you didn't have to scroll through a dozen ads and then still not get a definitive answer.

Google search went from gold to garbage

I'd once again like to offer my services! I can also tell you "idk" to any query and I don't cost billions of dollars and the planet's water supply. :)

Google turned into a rambling old-timer who stares at the sky and mutters, "The sun sets when it feels like it, kid."

you can add "-ai" to your search and it will give you the results without that dumb thing

I get an exa t time when I Google search it, but Google AI gives me a time 1 minute earlier.

Swear at it and it tells you the time...

Soon it will just be an AI agent that will answer before you ask so that your thinking can be totally Hijacked by billionaires.

Artificial intelligence. Artificial=key word.

Same thing happened to the date of full moons.

hmm woowwww

Just told me 8:57 pm

They are working towards a business model where they will answer: It's McDonalds o'clock!

agentic!

Your prompts is the problem. I hate AI, but unless you have location services on, it’s highly variable. Like Miami, Indianapolis, and Bangor are all in the time zone, but their range of sunsets are over an hour.

Uh...Google AI tells me, but then lies about it.

I've never had a problem with this. Just now tried (see below). I also have a free phone app called ephmeris that gives me sunrise, moonrise, sunset, and moonset times as well as start/end times for all phases of both twilights for locations of my choosing

The administration made Google remove everything that has to do with sundown.

You get to burn 14 acres of rainforest to get that non-answer, as well. The future looks... pretty fucking dystopian.

I use timeanddate.com for that

Brilliant!

Progress

The funny thing is, it will HAPPILY, confidently, explicitly tell you wrong information- continiously. But this where there is absolute factual information? Nah, no idea.

Right, but then if you ask it again, it might give it to you. I have a smart faucet and occasionally it tells me that it doesn't have arms so it can't pour water. No kidding.

Yes! Google used to be spot on with this. Last week, it told me a time that was 1.5 off.

Skill issue

Google ai can be mostly unhelpful 😐

Spending trillions of dollars to make computers bad at maths.

Try adding -ai to drop the ai summary

Just 1 more reason to De-Google your life.

It takes a certain level of awareness to admit that you dont know something 😉

Wow, the most accurate I have seen AI yet! 😂

Funny that Siri knows it.

All AI is good for is helping CEOs not pay wages.

It’s got the location wrong by about 100 miles, but Duck Duck Go can at least answer the question.

Well, at least it poisoned the water supply.

It got close for sunrise (I used sunrise because it's nighttime right now), and it was almost right, but guessed just a little bit too early. It also wasn't able to figure out the city I'm in from my IP either, and only got the state.

Duckduckgo still does:

I've legit had the AI tell me something like: "to find the exact time for sunset, do a search on a search engine like Google" it was telling me to google it when i already googled it

we spent decades teaching computers to talk like humans and in the end it just learned one of our best skills acting all confident while admitting it has no clue 🤷‍♀️

#Enshittification 💩

Enshittification - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

"Hal open the pod bay doors" "Im afraid I dont know Dave"

Just be more specific & ask "when is sunset today (add date) in my location (add location: city or other). Cause if you ask such non specific Q, you will get such non specific A. Because it does depend on the day & location. So I consider this A to that Q well done by your A I

reckon we gotta go back to farmers almanacs lads

it sucks, but at least i can add the -ai flag to every search to get the old result. New feature! Forced to type extra characters to get information

Meanwhile...

…quickly becoming the virtual equivalent of asking the loudest drunk at the bar…

When I ask what the temperature is it gives me the temp in a city far away from me that has the same sounding name. Once when I asked what time it was it told me what time it was on the east coast. I'm in the west coast. When i asked why it didn't give me the time for where I was it apologized. Lol.

Always fun to use the Google maps and it changes the directions as it sees fit- Google is shit

Way to snip the bit stating that it can't tell you when sunset is for you because you aren't sharing your location. Gotta get them likes.

"You're over-thinking this, Gemmie..." 😆

I asked google, using firefox on windows (and Android 16 using firefox) "the time of the sunset" location is [on] in browser pic below is the result

Type -ai after your search question and you might get a better answer.

Nice to see those gazillion $ data centers are working out!

The same goes for time zones. I used to be able to just google "2PM CST", and it would simply tell what time that was in my time zone. But the last time I looked, it gave me a lengthy description of what "2PM CST" means, with the time conversion maybe included somewhere in the block of text.

This is part of the reason why my library still buys a print copy of The Old Farmer's Almanac.

Now I know how artists feel. AI stole that directly from a text exchange I had with my wife.

Duck duck go

This is why I use the website for my community garden, which was made in the 00s and could probably be updated but it actually *works*. (Garden closes every day at sunset, so there's a widget that posts sunset time that day).

I hate AI and I can't seem to escape it. My phone, my TV, my search engines all try to force me to use it even though it is much much worse.

Luckily we have better options.

It is really over complicating everything 🤣

Asks Google home to turn off light switch, "we don't handle power commands" ask a second time "light switch turned off". Gemini over Google assistant the worst ever possible implementation or decisions they've made. Ridiculously poor

The point is to drain intelligence, and sell it to you on a meter.

AI sucks

it knows. it just decided withholding the answer was more interesting than giving it to you.

Look, there are plenty of reasons to hate AI and all, but come on: it answers the question just fine.

We’ve reached the point where AI can write essays but sometimes can’t tell you when the sun sets. 😅

I just asked Google Assistant, and it told me the Sun would set here at 8:31 PM.

You prob just have location turned off bro

Works in duckduckgo with location off.

It seems to work for me.

Ai is Crap

Interesting. I always asked “what time is sunset”, and that still seems to work for me.

The same for when you wanted to know when some date+gmt was for some other location, i hate this fucking agentic bullshit

Have we already reached Peak AI? You knew it was coming. ..

Works fine for me.

"Sunsets are crazy, man..."

I like how you cropped JUST up to where it answers your dumbass question

This is due to all the "safety guards" and "fairness" or "censorship" of ai (llm's). They will always opt for the vaguest and most flattering response, and will straddle any fence, so as not to confuse or offend any weak minded humans.

I get furious several times a day at it for failing to do basic shit anymore, like play a song from a specific album.

When they called it "artificial intelligence" they meant the intelligence of an inbred hick.

Duck Duck Go as my default engine on my PC & iPhone. It has a feature that allows you to turn off all AI. Life has been so much better.

Google doesn't know my location, and it still worked fine for me

Can't believe I have lived long enough to watch Google succumb to dementia.

Just open the eyes and have a watch handy!

Skill issue

"You should look it up"

When it’s too dark to see my phone’s screen.

www.timeanddate.com/sun/

Sunrise and Sunset CalculatorCalculate local times for sunrises, sunsets, meridian passing, Sun distance, altitude and twilight, dusk and dawn times.www.timeanddate.com

Sometimes it offers you the word “missiles” in Chinese three times then pretends it never happened if you try and replicate it 💀

You csn use DuckDuckGo instead of google. DDG really shows this

I think this is why the only time I ever talked to an ai I essentially told it to go screw itself. If it actually was intelligent I would try to be kind but now it’s an excel sheet with the artificial personality of a frat bro

Is location permissions enabled? On Android it works.

The weather app tells you the exact time the sun sets and rises.

Huh--worked here.

use "-ai" it makes google behave more like it used to. for instance "what time is sunset -ai"

AI = Artificial Idiocy

I gave up last night and removed Google as the default search on my phone for DuckDuckGo.

AI says that’s not my fucking job. 😆

This isn't the only previous feature that was ruined and replaced by AI that doesn't work.

The more people use forced AI browsers, the more resources Ai consumes. Please consider another browser. It's not just about "them" building data centers; we have to stop mindless consumption.

I also love searching for words to get the definition, and then getting bombarded with movies, products, and other random bullshit. Google used to be good, what the hell happened??

I use Lumy. I got it so I would always be able to point out the moon to my daughter on walks, but it has sunrise, sunset, golden hour times, moon location and phase, etc and is great for Apple Watch complications. Photographers use it I think. One time purchase l, no subscription. Highly recommend.

lol I don't use that search "engine" lol

'progress'

The other day, I clicked a blue search phrase on Instagram and got the most heinous AI hallucination I’ve ever seen in my life (FJ- I did NOT know at the time - means “foot job”)

DuckDuckGo's response is weird - it clearly knows I'm in central Ohio, the first actual search result says so, but it still pulled the NYC time (which is dramatically different due to our relative positions within the time zone). 8:20pm versus 8:53pm.

To be fair your question lacks even basic elements of precision. For all AI knows it could give you a time and you would say 'Oh, no. I meant on my birthday next year in Morocco.'

The absolute peak of "progress." 🙄 Moving from a 100% reliable, instant answer box to a multi-billion dollar AI model that politely hallucinates or throws up its hands with an "I don't know" for a basic search query is wild. We really traded data for chat vibes. 📉🤷‍♂️

I hope the human race will soon realize AI has to go. Humans only need humans

This is what I get, so...

Try timeanddate.com

Today's journey duration is 15h31 from france! Thanks to my clever apple iwatch.

Well worth the destruction of the environment and incinerating the middle class.

If it doesn’t know where you are it can’t. I asked the same question and got a precise answer for me. I then added “here today and it looked for permission to use my location and was equally accurate. I’m not an ai fanboy but it’s important we discuss it accurately.

This is about the only time it will tell you it doesn't know, instead of making something up bsky.app/profile/arga...

Have you considered that you probably blocked Google from using your location data? Plenty of other people in this thread (including myself) aren’t having the same problem. I’m inclined to agree with the guy who said, “skill issue.”

"FUCK IF I KNOW" Thanks, Weldin' Goggles. Walt and gaggin'. ... w... what ever the f*ck your name is, Coop from Fallout.

I hate new Google. 😤

Enshittification strikes again.

You mean before you started using VPN's?

I'm just surprised that, while being 100% useless (as usual), this time it's also a 100% correct answer.

Why ask Google when you can just gaze at this beauty for hours at a time: www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/london

Sunrise and sunset times in LondonCalculations of sunrise and sunset in London – England – United Kingdom for June 2026. Generic astronomy calculator to calculate times for sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset for many cities, with dayl...www.timeanddate.com

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It's absurd that getting basic info out of a search engine now requires layers of role play and misdirection. I just want some info please guy, not here to do improv with you

My favorite AI “conversation”:

Seems fine to me.

Add "-ai" to your search. Turns off the AI summary *and* you can find out the time of sunset before it gets dark. Maybe the "DuckDuckGo No-AI Search" Add-on will help, but I haven't tried that yet.

This is a recording of me trying to ask google how to remove ai summary texts on my new iphone. It was fine giving me a response when i allowed ai but the minute i did -ai it just blocked all the results. Ive began incorporating other search engines at this point. This is fucking absurd.

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Well, it's technically correct in the most useless way possible.

This stuff is good for quite a few things, but it still gets things so hilariously wrong all the time that you just have to be really careful about it. I asked Google a week ago whether Memorial Day is on the Los Angeles sanitation department holiday schedule. It confidently told me that it is.

Oddly I can't get mine to do this, but on the other hand it seems to randomly give me a range of answers within a 5 minute window? 🤨

That’s an example where AI is degrading the user experience

We will know Google's ai has achieved sentience when it replies, "I don't know, why don't you Google it, genius?"

You still can if your question is specific enough - I just checked and it works...

Yea ai can fuck right off

Changing to Duckduckgo/Ecosia is free. 😗

I find Google more annoying than useful now, so I've switched to Duck Duck Go, where you can turn off the AI bullshit suggestions and just get what you ask for. It's like going back to pre-enshittification: it just works. I highly recommend it.

"Sunset my location" You're welcome

The internet has become shit.

"the moment the sun disappears below the Western horizon"

I hate AI as much as anybody, but you ask vague questions, you're gonna get vague answers.

I asked the "Which day of the week has a fish in it?" question. DuckDuckGo didn't know whereas Google has been giving various responses, including Friday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursfish and Saturfish. Computers know the days of the week. They have spell check, yet AI has rendered them ridiculous.

Weird. It still works fine here.

Noai.duckduckgo.com still gives sunset time

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The AI overview gave me a time for my specific location but was still wrong.

It works for me.

I've seen enough, turn over all the cars, businesses, banks, and ICBMs to this thing.

It really is absurd how the quality and efficacy of literally everything in the fucking world is eroding and nobody cares because it provides minimally plausible justification for rich people to do insider trading.

The sun is always setting somewhere, man

Not only has it always been weird to ask Google questions, searching something as specific as "sunset today" in question format absolutely deserves this response, especially when you know the AI is trying to answer questions.

Tried it. And it gave me the sunset In London. I am 1,000 miles SE, in Tuscany.

Idiocracy

Interesting. I have my browsers set to not use AI, but when I did switch over to that search, it gave me the time like it would have before.

Worked for me.

AI 100% true statement 100% useless answer 0% help. That checks out.

Fellas, just @ me next time if you wanna know something and get a non-answering answer (and/or that is also stupid). I am a real human (sort-of 👽🖖) being and can do this very well. Infact, I wish it was my job to do this, but alas... no one wants little old me jobbing out here...

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 can't count to 24

If you don't want the Google AI answer, click on the word "web" under options, after you place your request Google search.

I remember reading the book "what would Google do" long ago, and couldn't have predicted the answer would be "fail miserably", yet here we are.

I've been enjoying using DuckDuckGo now for my searches.

Everyone just switch to duckduckgo, been using that for years now and it works great

It's such a tragedy... This took more effort to compute than the previous method, too

Yeah I liked this feature… now it just doesn’t work because they’ve replaced it with a useless “AI overview” “feature”

protip: use "-ai" at the end of your search to remove this thing it works just fine for me that way

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AI will kill your children and abandon their Granny. Don't use it.The worst thing AI has done for me is this: I was testing its problem solving skills by asking it how to cut a cheesecake into 5 equal piec...whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com

Just add "-ai" to every search. Restores actual working Google search.

#reclamação

If only megacorps harvested all possible info about us, then they'd have all the data they'd need to be able to answer that. /s

You don’t have to use the first thing Google gives you. That was a thing before AI existed too.

www.timeanddate.com will not disappoint

timeanddate.comWelcome to the world's top site for time, time zones, and astronomy. Organize your life with free online info and tools you can rely on. No sign-up needed.www.timeanddate.com

bing knows

google doesn’t work anymore

And they did this crap to their home assistants now. So every question gets responded to randomly.

I was able to get three different answers (one like yours and then 2 different times) just by hitting "return" on the exact same phrase 3 times.

Do these companies just not have basic competent programmers anymore, like how do stuff like this just slip under their radar?

I used to use Google Assistant to dial numbers, answer questions, and set nav routes for me hands-free while I was driving. Ever since it got replaced with Gemini, I cannot do any of those successfully. "Call my wife" results in "there is no contact for 'my wife'" or something along those lines.