Add per-message timestamps to conversation UI
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Feb 25, 2026 by spydyrs Closed Mar 1, 2026
Feature Request
Add a timestamp (HH:MM:SS or configurable format) to each message in the Claude Code CLI conversation view — both user submissions and assistant responses.
Why
- Sessions can run for hours. There's no way to tell when something happened.
- Every comparable tool does this: Slack, Discord, iTerm2, VS Code terminal, IRC, even
scriptfrom 1979. - Useful for debugging, context ("how long ago did that build run?"), and reviewing session history.
Suggested implementation
A setting like "showTimestamps": true in settings.json that prepends a gray timestamp to each message:
[14:32:05] > commit and push
[14:32:08] Pushed. e77eea8 is live on main.
[14:45:12] > is there a way to have timestamps...
Could also be a CLI flag (--timestamps) or always-on with a toggle.
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