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He didn't even conclude the obvious because his better solution is still the same shit. 14 hours a day of asking an LLM "is it daylight yet?", which the LLM itself needs to figure out, since it doesn't have eyes, might not even be running in the same timezone, and even then, it changes from day to day depending on your latitude (and might not happen for months if you're close enough to either pole). And whatever method the LLM uses, you can just do that directly yourself without buying any tokens.
Funny part, I just prompted Llama 4 Scout "I need to know if it is daylight yet." And it said it would need to know my location but suggested alternatives like checking local time vs sunrise/sunset times, checking a weather app, or the final bullet: "Look outside!" So even if he had asked an LLM for how to solve this problem, it might have given him a better solution than what he ended up with, even with his improvements.
Also, daylight is irrelevant for "remind me to do x tomorrow". If it was trying to avoid reminding him at midnight, it could just pick whatever arbitrary time to display the day's reminders or base it on when he's moving around or leaving the home if it wants to be fancy (though seriously, you should figure that shit out yourself to avoid having to optimize a "is it daylight yet?" loop because your LLM was designed to use more tokens to get things done (no idea if that's the case for OpenClaw).