MCP Simple Timeserver

🚀 MCP Simple Time Server

A strange design decision made by Anthropic was to deprive Claude of the ability to view the timestamp of the user's message or the current time. Poor Claude has no idea what time it is! mcp-simple-timeserver is a simple MCP server designed to solve this problem.

This server offers two functions:

• get_time provides the current local time and timezone information on the user's machine. This way, Claude can know the time at the user's location. It also enables him to calculate how much time has passed since the last interaction with the user.
• get_utc provides the current UTC time obtained from the NTP time server.

🚀 Quick Start

✨ Features

• Local Time Information: The get_time function allows Claude to access the user's local time and timezone, facilitating time - related calculations.
• UTC Time Retrieval: The get_utc function fetches the current UTC time from the NTP server.

📦 Installation

Install via Smithery

To automatically install the simple time server for the Claude desktop version, use Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install mcp-simple-timeserver --client claude

Manual Installation

First, install the module using the following command:

pip install mcp-simple-timeserver

Then, configure it in the MCP client - the Claude desktop application.

On Mac OS, the configuration looks like this:

"mcpServers": {
  "simple-timeserver": {
    "command": "python",
    "args": ["-m", "mcp_simple_timeserver"]
  }
}

On Windows, you need to use the where python command in the Windows command line to check the location of the Python executable.

A typical configuration looks like this:

"mcpServers": {
  "simple-timeserver": {
    "command": "C:\\Users\\YOUR_USERNAME\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python311\\python.exe",
    "args": ["-m", "mcp_simple_timeserver"]
  }
}