The temporal issues Bing is having (not knowing what the date is) are perhaps easily explainable. Isn't the core GPT language training corpus upto about year or so ago, that combined with more upto date bing search results/web pages could cause it to become 'confused' (create confusing output) due to the contradictory nature of their being new content from the future. Like a human waking up and finding that all the newspapers are for a few months in the future.

Reminds me of the issues HAL had in 2001 (although for different reasons)