AI Chat Timestamper

Silently prepends a timestamp to every message you send on arena.ai, so the AI knows the current date and time without exposing your timezone.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

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// ==UserScript==
// @name         AI Chat Timestamper
// @namespace    https://greasyfork.org/
// @version      1.0
// @description  Silently prepends a timestamp to every message you send on arena.ai, so the AI knows the current date and time without exposing your timezone.
// @author       NoName
// @license      CC0-1.0
// @match        *://arena.ai/*
// @match        *://*.arena.ai/*
// @match        *://lmarena.ai/*
// @match        *://*.lmarena.ai/*
// @run-at       document-start
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function () {
    'use strict';

    function buildTimestampParts() {
        const now = new Date();
        const days = ['Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat'];
        const pad = n => String(n).padStart(2, '0');

        const year = now.getFullYear();
        const month = pad(now.getMonth() + 1);
        const day = pad(now.getDate());
        const dow = days[now.getDay()];

        let hour = now.getHours();
        const min = pad(now.getMinutes());
        const ampm = hour >= 12 ? 'PM' : 'AM';

        hour = hour % 12;
        if (hour === 0) hour = 12;

        const plain = `${year}-${month}-${day} ${dow} ${hour}:${min} ${ampm}`;
        const full = `[${plain}] (Auto-generated)`;

        return { plain, full };
    }

    let toastEl = null;
    let toastTimer = null;

    function showToast(message) {
        function render() {
            if (!toastEl) {
                toastEl = document.createElement('div');
                toastEl.id = 'ai-ts-toast';
                toastEl.style.cssText = `
                    position: fixed;
                    left: 12px;
                    bottom: 12px;
                    z-index: 999999;
                    max-width: 82vw;
                    padding: 9px 12px;
                    border-left: 4px solid #22c55e;
                    border-radius: 10px;
                    background: #161616;
                    color: #f5f5f5;
                    font-size: 12px;
                    font-family: monospace;
                    line-height: 1.35;
                    word-break: break-word;
                    opacity: 0;
                    transform: translateY(6px);
                    transition: opacity 0.14s ease, transform 0.14s ease;
                    pointer-events: none;
                `;
                document.body.appendChild(toastEl);
            }

            toastEl.textContent = `🕐 ${message}`;
            toastEl.style.opacity = '1';
            toastEl.style.transform = 'translateY(0)';

            clearTimeout(toastTimer);
            toastTimer = setTimeout(() => {
                if (!toastEl) return;
                toastEl.style.opacity = '0';
                toastEl.style.transform = 'translateY(6px)';
            }, 2200);
        }

        if (document.body) {
            render();
        } else {
            document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', render, { once: true });
        }
    }

    function alreadyStamped(text) {
        return /^\[\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}\s(?:Sun|Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat)\s.+?\]\s\(Auto-generated\)/.test(text);
    }

    function tryStampPayload(parsed, stampText) {
        let changed = false;

        // Known current shape
        if (
            parsed &&
            parsed.userMessage &&
            typeof parsed.userMessage === 'object' &&
            typeof parsed.userMessage.content === 'string' &&
            !alreadyStamped(parsed.userMessage.content)
        ) {
            parsed.userMessage.content = stampText + '\n\n' + parsed.userMessage.content;
            return true;
        }

        // Common alternatives
        const candidates = [
            ['message'],
            ['prompt'],
            ['content'],
            ['text'],
            ['input']
        ];

        for (const path of candidates) {
            let obj = parsed;
            for (let i = 0; i < path.length - 1; i++) {
                if (!obj || typeof obj !== 'object') {
                    obj = null;
                    break;
                }
                obj = obj[path[i]];
            }

            if (!obj || typeof obj !== 'object') continue;

            const key = path[path.length - 1];
            if (typeof obj[key] === 'string' && !alreadyStamped(obj[key])) {
                obj[key] = stampText + '\n\n' + obj[key];
                return true;
            }
        }

        // Search nested objects shallowly for "content" string fields
        function scan(obj, depth = 0) {
            if (!obj || typeof obj !== 'object' || depth > 4 || changed) return;

            if (
                typeof obj.content === 'string' &&
                obj.content.trim() &&
                !alreadyStamped(obj.content)
            ) {
                obj.content = stampText + '\n\n' + obj.content;
                changed = true;
                return;
            }

            for (const key in obj) {
                if (!Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(obj, key)) continue;
                const value = obj[key];
                if (value && typeof value === 'object') {
                    scan(value, depth + 1);
                    if (changed) return;
                }
            }
        }

        scan(parsed);
        return changed;
    }

    const originalFetch = window.fetch;

    window.fetch = async function (...args) {
        let [resource, config] = args;

        const url = typeof resource === 'string' ? resource : resource.url;
        const method = (config && config.method) ? config.method.toUpperCase() : 'GET';

        if (
            method === 'POST' &&
            config &&
            config.body &&
            typeof config.body === 'string'
        ) {
            try {
                const parsed = JSON.parse(config.body);
                const ts = buildTimestampParts();

                const changed = tryStampPayload(parsed, ts.full);

                if (changed) {
                    config = {
                        ...config,
                        body: JSON.stringify(parsed)
                    };

                    showToast(`Timestamp: ${ts.plain}`);
                }
            } catch (e) {
                // Silently skip if parsing fails
            }
        }

        return originalFetch.apply(this, [resource, config]);
    };
})();