Summary
The model stops guessing what day it is.
A language model has no clock, and the usual workaround — pasting the date into the prompt — goes stale the moment a conversation runs long. One call fixes that, and the format argument means the answer arrives ready to paste.
What it is
A datetime formatting service exposed as an MCP server. One tool takes a format name and returns the current date and time rendered that way, with timezone handled for you.
What you get
- The current date and time in a named format
- Standard and ISO forms
- Japanese-language date and datetime forms
- Compact forms meant for filenames
- Timezone handling
Requirements
Python 3.12 or later with uv and uvx; the client entry is uvx mcp-datetime. Tested on macOS — Windows compatibility has not been verified by the author.
Setup effort
One command — pip install mcp-datetime