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time
by modelcontextprotocol
sympy-mcp
by sdiehl
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30d uses
Score7748
Official
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Last committhis month2 mo ago

time · Summary

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

sympy-mcp · Summary

A Model Context Protocol server that exposes SymPy's symbolic mathematics capabilities through MCP tool calling for LLMs.

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

sympy-mcp · Use cases

  • Solving differential equations in physics and engineering contexts
  • Performing symbolic integration and differentiation in educational settings
  • Computing tensors for general relativity calculations

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"]
    }
  }
}

sympy-mcp · Install

  1. Install [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/) first.
# Setup the project
git clone https://github.com/sdiehl/sympy-mcp.git
cd sympy-mcp
uv sync

# Install the server to Claude Desktop
uv run mcp install server.py

# Run the server
uv run mcp run server.py

For Claude Desktop configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sympy-mcp": {
      "command": "/opt/homebrew/bin/uv",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--with",
        "einsteinpy",
        "--with",
        "mcp[cli]",
        "--with",
        "pydantic",
        "--with",
        "sympy",
        "mcp",
        "run",
        "/ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_SYMPY_MCP/server.py"
      ]
    }
  }
}
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