casual-mcp-server-time 1.0.0

Time and date utilities as a FastMCP server

Time and Date MCP Server

An MCP server providing time and date tools for LLMs.

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Overview

The Time and Date MCP Server provides date and time utilities for language models and AI assistants. It allows tools like current_time, time_since, date_diff to be called programmatically via Stdio or Streamable HTTP.

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Tools

The tools exposed by the MCP server include:

• current_time - Get the current time in a given timezone.
• time_since - Human readable time elapsed since a given date.
• add_days - Add days to today and return the future date.
• subtract_days - Subtract days from today and return the past date.
• date_diff - Number of days between two dates.
• next_weekday - Date of the next occurrence of a weekday.
• is_leap_year - Check if a year is a leap year.
• week_number - ISO week number for a date.
• parse_human_date - Parse a natural language date description.

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Configuration

Local Time Zone

The local time zone can be set using the environmental variable LOCAL_TIME_ZONE.

It takes a IANA Timezone, if not given it will default to Etc/UTC.

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🛠️ Installation

Local Development (via uv)

From this directory:

uv sync --locked
uv tool install .

Docker Build

From the root of the repository:

docker build -f servers/time/Dockerfile -t casual-mcp-server-time .

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▶️ Running the Server

➤ Stdio Mode

From Source

Install for local development and then configure:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "time": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": ["tool", "run", "casual-mcp-server-time"],
      "env": {
        "LOCAL_TIME_ZONE": "Asia/Bangkok"
      }
    }
  }
}

Using uvx

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "time": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["casual-mcp-server-time"],
      "env": {
        "LOCAL_TIME_ZONE": "Asia/Bangkok"
      }
    }
  }
}

Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "time": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "--rm", "casual-mcp-server-time"],
      "env": {
        "LOCAL_TIME_ZONE": "Asia/Bangkok"
      }
    }
  }
}

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➤ Streamable HTTP Mode

From Source

uv run casual-mcp-server-time --transport streamable-http

With port/host overrides:

uv run casual-mcp-server-time --transport streamable-http --port 9000 --host 0.0.0.0

Using uvx

uvx casual-mcp-server-time --transport streamable-http

You can use the same port/host overrides as above

Docker

docker run -e MCP_TRANSPORT=streamable-http -e MCP_PORT=9000 -p 9000:9000 casual-mcp-server-time

Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "time": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "http://localhost:9000"
    }
  }
}

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📜 License

MIT – LICENSE

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📦 PyPI

Published at: https://pypi.org/project/casual-mcp-server-time/