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Current Date/Time Tool

Returns the actual current date/time in a given format and IANA timezone.

Should I use this

Quality & Safety

A
Description quality
100%
Schema completeness
90%
Naming quality
80%
Poisoning risk
100%
Permission match
100%
Protocol compliance
100%

Based on automated analysis of tool definitions and protocol compliance.

Context Cost

~153Tokens (tool definitions)
~1.3 KBTypical response size
Minimal attention impact (0.12% of 128k context)

This is the approximate number of tokens consumed each time the server's tools are loaded into a model's context. Higher counts reduce the attention available for other tasks.

Install

One-Click Install

Add this to your `claude_desktop_config.json` file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "current-datetime-tool": {
      "url": "https://apished.com/mcp/v1/datetime"
    }
  }
}

Remote endpoints

https://apished.com/mcp/v1/datetimestreamable-http

What it can do

Tool inventory

Tools (1)

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⚪datetime_now(format, timezone)

Returns the actual current date/time — an LLM has a training cutoff and no live clock, so it can't know what time it actually is right now.

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "format": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "iso8601 (default), unix, unixmilli, or rfc1123"
    },
    "timezone": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "IANA timezone name, e.g. Europe/Warsaw; default UTC"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "value": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "format": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "timezone": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "value",
    "format",
    "timezone"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

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Evidence

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