Uses date-fns and date-fns-tz libraries for comprehensive time manipulation operations including timezone conversions, date arithmetic, business day calculations, duration calculations, and flexible date formatting across IANA timezones
MCP Time Server Node
A comprehensive Node.js time manipulation server implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for LLMs like Claude. This server provides powerful time-related operations including timezone conversions, date arithmetic, business day calculations, and more.
Features
- 🌍 Timezone Operations: Convert times between any IANA timezones
- ⏰ Current Time: Get current time in any timezone with custom formatting
- ➕➖ Date Arithmetic: Add or subtract time periods from dates
- 📊 Duration Calculations: Calculate time between dates in various units
- 💼 Business Days: Calculate business days excluding weekends and holidays
- ⏱️ Business Hours: Calculate working hours between timestamps with timezone support
- 🔄 Recurring Events: Find next occurrences of recurring patterns
- 📝 Flexible Formatting: Format times in relative, calendar, or custom formats
- 📅 Days Until: Calculate days until any date or event
- 🚀 High Performance: Response times < 10ms with intelligent caching
- 🔒 Security Hardened: Input validation, cache key hashing, ESLint security rules
- 🛡️ Rate Limiting: Configurable rate limits to prevent abuse
- ✅ Thoroughly Tested: 703+ tests with 100% coverage
Installation
Using npm (recommended)
Using Claude Code (claude mcp add)
Add the server to Claude Code:
Using Claude Desktop
Manually add to your claude_desktop_config.json
:
Local Testing
For testing before npm publish:
Available Tools
1. get_current_time
Get the current time in any timezone.
Parameters:
timezone
(optional): IANA timezone name (default: "UTC")format
(optional): date-fns format stringinclude_offset
(optional): Include UTC offset (default: true)
Example:
2. convert_timezone
Convert time between timezones.
Parameters:
time
(required): Input time in ISO format or parseable stringfrom_timezone
(required): Source IANA timezoneto_timezone
(required): Target IANA timezoneformat
(optional): Output format string
Example:
3. add_time
Add a duration to a date/time.
Parameters:
time
(required): Base timeamount
(required): Amount to addunit
(required): Unit ("years", "months", "days", "hours", "minutes", "seconds")timezone
(optional): Timezone for calculation
Example:
4. subtract_time
Subtract a duration from a date/time.
Parameters:
- Same as
add_time
5. calculate_duration
Calculate the duration between two times.
Parameters:
start_time
(required): Start timeend_time
(required): End timeunit
(optional): Output unit ("auto", "milliseconds", "seconds", "minutes", "hours", "days")timezone
(optional): Timezone for parsing
Example:
6. get_business_days
Calculate business days between dates.
Parameters:
start_date
(required): Start dateend_date
(required): End dateexclude_weekends
(optional): Exclude Saturdays and Sundays (default: true)holidays
(optional): Array of holiday dates in ISO formattimezone
(optional): Timezone for calculation
Example:
7. next_occurrence
Find the next occurrence of a recurring event.
Parameters:
pattern
(required): "daily", "weekly", "monthly", or "yearly"start_from
(optional): Start searching from this date (default: now)day_of_week
(optional): For weekly pattern (0-6, where 0 is Sunday)day_of_month
(optional): For monthly pattern (1-31)time
(optional): Time in HH formattimezone
(optional): Timezone for calculation
Example:
8. format_time
Format time in various human-readable formats.
Parameters:
time
(required): Time to formatformat
(required): "relative", "calendar", or "custom"custom_format
(optional): Format string when using "custom" formattimezone
(optional): Timezone for display
Example:
9. calculate_business_hours
Calculate business hours between two times.
Parameters:
start_time
(required): Start timeend_time
(required): End timebusiness_hours
(optional): Business hours definition (default: 9 AM - 5 PM)- Can be a single object:
{ start: { hour: 9, minute: 0 }, end: { hour: 17, minute: 0 } }
- Or weekly schedule:
{ 0: null, 1: { start: {...}, end: {...} }, ... }
(0=Sunday, 6=Saturday)
- Can be a single object:
timezone
(optional): Timezone for calculationholidays
(optional): Array of holiday datesinclude_weekends
(optional): Include weekends in calculation (default: false)
Example:
10. days_until
Calculate days until a target date or event.
Parameters:
target_date
(required): Target date (ISO string, natural language like "next Christmas", or Unix timestamp)timezone
(optional): Timezone for calculation (default: system timezone)format_result
(optional): Return formatted string instead of number (default: false)
Example:
Environment Variables
NODE_ENV
: Set to "production" for production useRATE_LIMIT
: Maximum requests per minute (default: 100)RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW
: Rate limit window in milliseconds (default: 60000)CACHE_SIZE
: Maximum cache entries (default: 10000)DEFAULT_TIMEZONE
: Override system timezone detection (e.g., "America/New_York")MAX_LISTENERS
: Maximum concurrent requests (default: 20, minimum: 10)
Performance
- All operations complete in < 10ms (after initial load)
- Intelligent caching reduces repeated calculations
- Sliding window rate limiting prevents abuse
- Memory-efficient implementation
Error Handling
The server returns structured errors with codes:
INVALID_TIMEZONE
: Invalid timezone specifiedINVALID_DATE_FORMAT
: Cannot parse the provided dateINVALID_UNIT
: Invalid time unit specifiedRATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED
: Too many requestsINVALID_RECURRENCE_PATTERN
: Invalid recurrence pattern
Development
Current Status
We are actively refactoring the codebase to reduce duplication and improve maintainability. See:
- Refactoring Roadmap - Our plan to reduce code duplication from 18% to under 5%
- Refactoring Status - Current progress on the refactoring phases
Building from source
Running tests
Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.
License
MIT License - see LICENSE file for details
Author
pshempel
Acknowledgments
Built with:
- Model Context Protocol SDK
- date-fns for date manipulation
- date-fns-tz for timezone support
remote-capable server
The server can be hosted and run remotely because it primarily relies on remote services or has no dependency on the local environment.
Tools
Provides comprehensive time manipulation capabilities including timezone conversions, date arithmetic, business day calculations, duration calculations, and recurring event handling. Enables natural language time queries with high performance and intelligent caching.
- Features
- Installation
- Available Tools
- Environment Variables
- Performance
- Error Handling
- Development
- Contributing
- License
- Author
- Acknowledgments
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