{
  "name": "io.github.modelcontextprotocol/servers",
  "description": "The Time MCP is one of the official Model Context Protocol reference servers maintained by Anthropic (modelcontextprotocol/servers). It gives an AI agent two things every location-aware or scheduling task needs: the current time in any IANA timezone, and conversion of a time from one zone to another. It runs locally over stdio with no API key, no network calls, and no account.",
  "status": "active",
  "version": "latest",
  "_meta": {
    "com.top-mcps/lastVerified": "2026-06-16",
    "com.top-mcps/score": {
      "value": 96,
      "rubricVersion": "2026-04",
      "lastComputed": "2026-06-17T11:53:23.533Z",
      "methodology": "https://top-mcps.com/about/methodology"
    },
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      "fetchedAt": "2026-06-17T11:53:23.212Z",
      "githubStars": 84102,
      "lastCommitAt": "2026-04-17T22:59:54Z"
    }
  },
  "repository": {
    "url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/time",
    "source": "github"
  },
  "author": {
    "name": "Anthropic (modelcontextprotocol)"
  },
  "packages": [
    {
      "registryType": "pypi",
      "registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
      "identifier": "mcp-server-time",
      "version": "latest",
      "transport": {
        "type": "stdio"
      }
    }
  ],
  "capabilities": {
    "tools": [
      {
        "name": "get_current_time",
        "description": "Get the current time in a specific IANA timezone (or the auto-detected system timezone).",
        "sideEffect": "read",
        "args": [
          {
            "name": "timezone",
            "type": "string",
            "required": false
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "convert_time",
        "description": "Convert a 24-hour time from a source IANA timezone to a target IANA timezone.",
        "sideEffect": "read",
        "args": [
          {
            "name": "source_timezone",
            "type": "string",
            "required": true
          },
          {
            "name": "time",
            "type": "string",
            "required": true
          },
          {
            "name": "target_timezone",
            "type": "string",
            "required": true
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "security": {
      "scope": "read-only",
      "sandbox": "Local stdio process. Reads the host system clock and the bundled IANA timezone database. No filesystem writes, no network access, no credentials.",
      "gotchas": [
        "Returns the host machine clock — if the host clock is wrong, the answer is wrong. It is not an NTP time-sync service.",
        "Timezone names must be valid IANA identifiers; abbreviations like \"EST\" or \"PST\" are not accepted."
      ]
    }
  },
  "_links": {
    "html": "https://top-mcps.com/mcp/time",
    "markdown": "https://top-mcps.com/mcp/time.md",
    "methodology": "https://top-mcps.com/about/methodology"
  }
}