MCP Time Server
Official MCP reference server for current time and timezone conversion.
About
The official reference MCP server for time. It exposes the current time and timezone conversion tools — the small utility that stops agents from hallucinating dates. It runs as a Python package via uvx and has no side effects whatsoever.
What it can do
- Current time in any IANA timezone
- Timezone conversion
- Read-only — zero side effects
- Lightweight uvx execution
Setup
- Install Python 3.10+ and
uv. - Add to your MCP client config: command
uvx, args["mcp-server-time"](optionally--local-timezone). - Restart the client.
Prerequisites
An MCP-compatible client; Python 3.10+ with uv.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 9/10
Scored 9/10 (verified tier). Official reference server, ~91k monorepo stars, actively maintained, uvx install verified. Docked only for the mixed license state (MIT→Apache-2.0 transition). Read-only with no side effects — about as low-risk as an MCP server gets.
★ 91,183 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 9.2/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 9.2/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 8.3/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 9.0/10
- · 91,183 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
- · last push 1d ago; 9 releases/12mo; 488 open issues
- · manual review: official reference; read-only time tools; negligible risk; license: MIT transitioning to Apache-2.0 (project-wide relicense in progress; LICENSE file)
Sources
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