Time-MCP is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that allows AI agents to access current time and date information. This enables agents to fulfill time-dependent tasks, such as checking the time in different timezones or working with time-relative tasks.
Make sure you have the uv
package manager installed on your system.
To add the Time-MCP server to the Claude Desktop App:
Download or clone the time_mcp_server.py
file to your local system
Edit the Claude Desktop App configuration file located at:
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Add the Time-MCP server to the configuration:
{
"mcpServers": {
"time": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/PARENT/FOLDER/time-mcp",
"run",
"time_mcp_server.py"
]
}
}
}
Save the file and restart the Claude Desktop App
Note: You may need to use the full path to the uv
executable in the command field. You can find this by running which uv
on macOS/Linux or where uv
on Windows.
Since Time-MCP is an STDIO-based MCP server, you can implement a client following the pattern in the official MCP client tutorial at https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/client. Use time_mcp_server.py
instead of the example weather server.
Time-MCP provides two main tools:
Returns a formatted date and time string in the specified timezone (defaults to UTC if none is specified).
Returns the current time as a UNIX timestamp.
With Time-MCP configured, you can ask Claude questions like:
The agent will be able to access the current time data to provide accurate time-aware responses, enabling it to handle time-dependent tasks more effectively.
To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:
claude mcp add-json "time" '{"command":"uv","args":["--directory","/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/PARENT/FOLDER/time-mcp","run","time_mcp_server.py"]}'
See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.
There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json
file so that it is available in all of your projects.
If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json
file.
To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".
When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json
file will be opened and you can add your server like this:
{
"mcpServers": {
"time": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/PARENT/FOLDER/time-mcp",
"run",
"time_mcp_server.py"
]
}
}
}
To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json
file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.
Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.
The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.
You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.
To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:
1. Find your configuration file:
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
2. Add this to your configuration file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"time": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/PARENT/FOLDER/time-mcp",
"run",
"time_mcp_server.py"
]
}
}
}
3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect