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time
by modelcontextprotocol
trueline-mcp
by rjkaes
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time · Summary

A comprehensive MCP server providing time and timezone conversion tools with automatic system timezone detection.

trueline-mcp · Summary

An MCP plugin that provides hash-verified file editing and targeted reads for AI coding agents to reduce token usage and prevent silent corruption.

time · Use cases

  • Assisting with international meeting scheduling across time zones
  • Providing real-time time information for location-based queries
  • Enabling time conversion for travel planning and itineraries

trueline-mcp · Use cases

  • Reducing token usage when working with large source code files by reading only necessary line ranges
  • Preventing silent corruption of code when AI agents edit files that have changed concurrently
  • Improving efficiency in multi-file editing sessions by batching edits and reducing context window overhead

time · Install

Installation Options

**Using uv (recommended):**

uvx mcp-server-time

**Using PIP:**

pip install mcp-server-time
python -m mcp_server_time

**Configure for Claude Desktop:**

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "time": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-server-time"]
    }
  }
}

trueline-mcp · Install

Installation

**Claude Code (recommended; hooks are automatic):**

/plugin marketplace add rjkaes/trueline-mcp
/plugin install trueline-mcp@trueline-mcp

**Other platforms (Gemini CLI, VS Code Copilot, OpenCode, Codex CLI):** See [INSTALL.md](https://github.com/rjkaes/trueline-mcp/blob/main/INSTALL.md) for platform-specific setup.

**CLI (no MCP):** For agents that use shell commands instead of MCP, install globally with npm i -g trueline-mcp and add configs/cli/instructions.md to your agent's system prompt.

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