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by Stratoscope 173 days ago
Claude's web interface has an elegant solution. When you roll the mouse over one of your prompts, it has the abbreviated date in the row of Retry/Edit/Copy icons, e.g. "Dec 17". Then if you roll the mouse over that date, you get the full date and time, e.g. "Dec 17, 2025, 10:26 AM".

This keeps the UI clean, but makes it easy to get the timestamp when you want it.

Claude's mobile app doesn't have this feature. But there is a simple, logical place to put it. When you long-press one of your prompts, it pops up a menu and one line could be added to it:

  Dec 17, 2025, 10:26 AM [I added this here]
  Copy Message
  Select Text
  Edit
ChatGPT could simply do the same thing for both web and mobile.