Gmail Show Time

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Status

Extension status: Featured
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Description from extension meta

Shows full date/time in email listing and detail headers. Support custom date/time format.

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Description from store

Gmail shows the date of an email in the last column of your email overview. Depending on how old the email is, the display format changes.

In all cases, I wanted to see the time of the emails. This extension does exactly that.

The latest major version 3 now supports custom date/time formatting options.

By installing and using Gmail Show Time, you agree to the Privacy Policy at https://cleverinsert.com/privacy_policy_cws.txt

Changelog

Version 3.7.1
2022-07-19
Removed Bing until further notice
Seems you lose all control over search engines

Version 3.7.0
2022-07-19
Added Bing as default search engine to help support the project
The change is optional and can be reversed if needed

Version 3.6.3
2021-12-23
Japanese month bug fix

Version 3.6.2
2021-11-07
Added formatting options

Version 3.6.0
2021-08-16
Upgrade to Manifest V3
Bugfix US AM/PM

Version 3.5.2
2021-03-30
Redirect to options on install - now the proper way

Version 3.5.1
2021-03-29
Redirect to options on install

Version 3.5.0
2021-03-27
Added support options

Version 3.4.0
2021-01-14
Stripped the store

Version 3.3.12
2020-08-17
Fixed parser for Japanese

Version 3.3.11
2019-11-08
Noon AM/PM bugfix

Version 3.3.10
2019-05-17
Another layout fix for preview pane

Version 3.3.9
2018-09-13
New layout fix; flickering issue when preview pane is enabled

Version 3.3.8
2018-09-10
Added support for week numbers

Version 3.3.7
2018-08-23
Added Privacy Policy
Several tiny bug fixes

Version 3.3.6
2018-08-06
Date parse fix for AM/PM

Version 3.3.4
2018-07-11
Preloading i18l branch
Reintroduction of enabled/disabled icon state
Possible fix for annoying update notification
Icon-style synchronised with Groups Show Time

Version 3.2.4
2018-05-18
Added support for month names %b, %B

Version 3.2.3
2018-04-18
UI fix

Latest reviews

Paddy Landau 2025-08-26: What a relief to find this extension! I really don't like relative dates, popular in many websites including Gmail. Thanks to the dev for this.
S1f Sw 2025-07-28: This is a simple but useful extension displays the exact date and time for each email right in your inbox. I use it together with Simplehuman for Gmail, which gives me advanced Gmail features like Superhuman for far less. These tools keep my email routine efficient and clear. Highly recommended.
André 2025-06-27: Love it!
Bradley Forney 2024-09-03: Does exactly what you'd expect it to do and has worked fine for me for years. I appreciate the developer keeping this extension up even after google decided to get rid of in-app payments.
David Atkinson 2024-08-13: Awesome, works great with full customization of date format! Thank you so much!
Stacy Butts 2024-07-16: It is sad that you have to piece meal your work tools.
Robi Gerzsany 2024-06-21: Exactly what I needed: this add-on shows the exact date and time in inbox view besides sender, label, subject, star, etc. This tiny tool does that, nothing else. Seconds are NOT displayed, it's worthless giving 1 star for a feature that is not included in this add-on. Special thanks to developer CleverInsert to make this available free of charge.
William (Bill) 2024-01-28: I would give this 5 stars, except that it doesn't add the most obvious time functionality that is missing in Gmail, and that is the Time Received including seconds. Gmail currently shows this, for example: Jan 23, 2024, 7:15 AM which is missing the seconds, like this: Jan 23, 2024, 7:15:26 AM. Why go to all the trouble to create an extension for customizing the displayed time in Gmail, but not include the seconds?? Let's hope the developer hasn't abandoned this project and makes the effort to add the "time is seconds" functionality.
Tsz Yin YEUNG 2024-01-12: exactly what i need
Bryan MAYNARD 2023-10-02: Not worth anything. All it does is create a ton of new tab popups begging for donations. Go figure.
Bryan MAYNARD 2023-10-02: Not worth anything. All it does is create a ton of new tab popups begging for donations. Go figure.
Bret Van Ausdall 2022-10-14: It works! Adds times in so you find an hour/min of an email in a lengthy email chain to your gmail webpages.
Bret Van Ausdall 2022-10-14: It works! Adds times in so you find an hour/min of an email in a lengthy email chain to your gmail webpages.
Tim Blumentritt 2022-07-20: Really appreciate this extension. It was startling to encounter the search engine issue, but I found the developer very responsive to sorting it out and now everything is back to working well as it had before.
Tim Blumentritt 2022-07-20: Really appreciate this extension. It was startling to encounter the search engine issue, but I found the developer very responsive to sorting it out and now everything is back to working well as it had before.
Andrew Gregg 2022-07-20: This extension was great until it updated to require new permissions completely unrelated to its function. It now alters the search engine.
Andrew Gregg 2022-07-20: This extension was great until it updated to require new permissions completely unrelated to its function. It now alters the search engine.
Angela DeFranco 2022-07-20: I'm having issues ...Chrome is showing me the 'Error' indicator in the top right hand side of my browser. When I click on it I get a message that says 'Google Show Time is disabled', and then gives me options to either 'Accept Permissions' or 'Remove'. In the app management area I see the app is not disabled at all, and my email shows the correct date format. I wanted to clear the error, so I just clicked 'Accept permissions', but that did nothing. If I click 'Remove' it claims it will remove the app all together. I just want to use the original app that I have been using. If I cannot get this 'Error' message to clear, or have other issues (like what many have recently reported) I may need to uninstall this app, but it will be a shame if I have to do that.
Angela DeFranco 2022-07-20: I'm having issues ...Chrome is showing me the 'Error' indicator in the top right hand side of my browser. When I click on it I get a message that says 'Google Show Time is disabled', and then gives me options to either 'Accept Permissions' or 'Remove'. In the app management area I see the app is not disabled at all, and my email shows the correct date format. I wanted to clear the error, so I just clicked 'Accept permissions', but that did nothing. If I click 'Remove' it claims it will remove the app all together. I just want to use the original app that I have been using. If I cannot get this 'Error' message to clear, or have other issues (like what many have recently reported) I may need to uninstall this app, but it will be a shame if I have to do that.
Dario 2022-07-19: Worked great up until it hijacked the browser search settings - developers state that it was changed to Bing to "support the project," but it's *actually* changed to smartwebfinders.com, which does who-knows-what with my data before redirecting to Bing. No thanks.
Dario 2022-07-19: Worked great up until it hijacked the browser search settings - developers state that it was changed to Bing to "support the project," but it's *actually* changed to smartwebfinders.com, which does who-knows-what with my data before redirecting to Bing. No thanks.
Nick Pawlowski 2022-07-19: Worked great up until it hijacked the browser search settings - developers state that it was changed to Bing to "support the project," but it's *actually* changed to smartwebfinders.com, which does who-knows-what with my data before redirecting to Bing. No thanks.
Nick Pawlowski 2022-07-19: Worked great up until it hijacked the browser search settings - developers state that it was changed to Bing to "support the project," but it's *actually* changed to smartwebfinders.com, which does who-knows-what with my data before redirecting to Bing. No thanks.
Eric Woodhouse 2022-07-19: The most recent update hijacks Chrome Search Engine settings to direct searches to a site by the name "smartwebfinders" which then immediately redirects to Bing. Whether or not the developers enacted this or it's behavior triggered by one of their dependencies, it's unwanted and potentially dangerous.
Eric Woodhouse 2022-07-19: The most recent update hijacks Chrome Search Engine settings to direct searches to a site by the name "smartwebfinders" which then immediately redirects to Bing. Whether or not the developers enacted this or it's behavior triggered by one of their dependencies, it's unwanted and potentially dangerous.
Jefferson Ogata - NOAA Federal 2022-07-19: Wants to install a search engine. Removing, reporting as spyware.
Jefferson Ogata - NOAA Federal 2022-07-19: Wants to install a search engine. Removing, reporting as spyware.
Michele Netdevil 2022-07-19: Avete modificato il programma per imporre come motore di ricerca BING. Trovate quanto prima una soluzione poiché va contro qualsiasi regola
Steven Greenwaters 2022-07-19: Changed my default search engine to a sketchy website without permission
Steven Greenwaters 2022-07-19: Changed my default search engine to a sketchy website without permission
Nick Knock 2022-07-19: New version of this extension tried changing my default search engine to some backwater website. Greed is not good.
Nick Knock 2022-07-19: New version of this extension tried changing my default search engine to some backwater website. Greed is not good.
Ajay Goel 2022-04-21: Excellent extension, and makes Gmail a whole lot better. (I'm a Gmail extension developer myself, so this is coming from an expert.) Thank you for this.
Ajay Goel 2022-04-21: Excellent extension, and makes Gmail a whole lot better. (I'm a Gmail extension developer myself, so this is coming from an expert.) Thank you for this.
James Nguyen 2022-02-20: 2022 0220. testing
James Nguyen 2022-02-20: 2022 0220. testing
Saori 2021-11-25: Thank you for developing such a great extension. For some reason, month is shown one month ahead in the custom mode. Though it is November now, it shows like "12-25". It didn't fix even after changing to other display format. Would you help solving it?
Saori 2021-11-25: Thank you for developing such a great extension. For some reason, month is shown one month ahead in the custom mode. Though it is November now, it shows like "12-25". It didn't fix even after changing to other display format. Would you help solving it?
Erik Hill 2021-11-15: BRILLIANT!! Thank you!!!! Works perfectly and a perfect solution to my problem of not being able to see the timestamp of emails that aren't from the current day in Gmail!
Erik Hill 2021-11-15: BRILLIANT!! Thank you!!!! Works perfectly and a perfect solution to my problem of not being able to see the timestamp of emails that aren't from the current day in Gmail!
Alexis McMillen 2021-10-09: I often look back at sent emails to fill in when I forget to track time for work - set this up easily using the custom format and it's showing just what I needed! Silly that this isn't default for Gmail already.
Alexis McMillen 2021-10-09: I often look back at sent emails to fill in when I forget to track time for work - set this up easily using the custom format and it's showing just what I needed! Silly that this isn't default for Gmail already.
Erik Meitner 2021-02-28: Works well. -1 to Google for not making this a part of GMail. +1 to this extension for fixing GMail's flaw.
Erik Meitner 2021-02-28: Works well. -1 to Google for not making this a part of GMail. +1 to this extension for fixing GMail's flaw.
Constantine Andrienko 2021-01-24: Wrong 24h time format
Constantine Andrienko 2021-01-24: Wrong 24h time format
Anonymous 2019-09-05: You have to pay for it to do anything at all. The only free option is the Gmail default, at which point, why am I giving you access to my data? This is not clear at all from the Chrome store page. I would have been happy to consider paying for something if the price had been clear up front, but this is shady.
Bernie Peterson 2019-06-06: I loaded it on one machine and it worked great. I never saw a price...i assumed it was free. I am trying to install it on another machine and it says it's installed but it doesn't work. I just have the default time for the current day and just the date for previous days. Why is everything so damn difficult? Maybe just maybe it will magically start working.
Bernie Peterson 2019-06-06: I loaded it on one machine and it worked great. I never saw a price...i assumed it was free. I am trying to install it on another machine and it says it's installed but it doesn't work. I just have the default time for the current day and just the date for previous days. Why is everything so damn difficult? Maybe just maybe it will magically start working.
Fazlul Karim 2019-03-29: at fist install i refreshed gmail and it seemed to work. withik a few days , it was only working inermittently. thaks for eng.fazlu, bangladesh, dhaka

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