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Timezone Truth MCP Server

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Timezone Truth is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 1 tools.

Convert times between IANA zones and detect skipped or ambiguous DST local times.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 5 days of history · worst day 0%
5 days agonow
1.1%
Uptime 24h
1 of 93 checks
1
Tools
read from the server
953 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Timezone Truth does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 70.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add timezone-truth --transport http https://timezone-truth.gumballtools.com/api/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "timezone-truth": {
      "url": "https://timezone-truth.gumballtools.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.timezone-truth]
url = "https://timezone-truth.gumballtools.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "timezone-truth": {
      "url": "https://timezone-truth.gumballtools.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "timezone-truth": {
      "url": "https://timezone-truth.gumballtools.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 1

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

convert
convert_time
Convert a wall-clock time between two IANA timezones, and report the ways the conversion can be wrong. ALWAYS use this instead of doing the arithmetic. Timezone conversion looks like addition and is not: the mapping from a local time to an instant is not a function. - On the spring-forward date, an hour of local time DOES NOT EXIST. Asked to convert 02:30 on that date, a model will return a plausible timestamp for a time that never happens. This tool returns null and says why. - On the fall-back date, an hour happens TWICE. There are two correct answers an hour apart; this returns both rather than silently choosing. - The gap between two zones is not constant. Zones start and end daylight saving on different dates, so a cached offset is wrong for weeks each year. - Not all offsets are whole hours: India is +05:30, Nepal +05:45. Input: `time` must be YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM (or with T, and optional seconds) — free-form dates are refused rather than guessed. `from` and `to` must be full IANA names such as "America/New_York". ABBREVIATIONS ARE REJECTED, deliberately, even though most runtimes accept them. Node resolves "BST" to Bangladesh Standard Time (UTC+06:00) when nearly everyone writing it means British Summer Time (UTC+01:00) — a five-hour error that yields a perfectly plausible timestamp. Same for CST, IST, PST, and EST. Returns: the chosen UTC instant (null if the local time does not exist), every candidate instant, both zone readings with the offset and abbreviation that applied on THAT date, the difference between the zones, upcoming clock changes for both, and warnings. Check `warnings` for severity "error" before using the result.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://timezone-truth.gumballtools.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 196 ms 3 min ago

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Timezone Truth — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Timezone Truth do?
It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: convert_time. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Timezone Truth working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 1 of 93 checks got a reply (1.1%), average response time 953 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is Timezone Truth still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
The registry lists Timezone Truth as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Timezone Truth?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Timezone Truth need an API key?
No. Timezone Truth completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 1 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Timezone Truth?
It answers our handshake in 953 ms on average, which is faster than 10% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.