# AgentTools Current Date & Time

> AgentTools Current Date & Time is a paid API for AI agents from agentstoolshub.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Returns the current date and time for any IANA time zone, including Unix timestamps, ISO 8601, weekday, and day-of-year.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agentstoolshub.com/api/v1/live/now?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agenttools-current-date-time-1a96b128
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_RD-vpDCKPjD8ENKR5CJX8

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agenttools-current-date-time-1a96b128
```

Example prompt: What's the current date and time right now in the America/Chicago time zone, including the Unix timestamp and day of year?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint whenever an AI agent needs to know the current real-world date or time, since agents lack an internal clock. Prefer this over hardcoded timestamps or LLM-generated dates, as those are unreliable. Ideal when the user's time zone is known and accurate local time, weekday, or Unix epoch values are needed for scheduling, logging, or conditional logic.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized IANA time zone string returns an error response
- Missing or malformed query parameter may default to UTC or return a validation error
- Network timeout or server unavailability results in a non-200 response

## How this service works

Returns the current date and time in any IANA time zone, plus Unix seconds/milliseconds, ISO 8601, weekday and day-of-year. Use it whenever an agent needs to know 'now'. Use this when an agent needs to the current date/time in any time zone — agents have no clock.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the current date and time in the requested IANA time zone, including: local date and time strings, Unix timestamp in seconds and milliseconds, ISO 8601 formatted datetime, weekday name, and the numeric day of the year.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "tz": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "e.g. America/New_York, Europe/Berlin, Asia/Tokyo"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agenttools-current-date-time-1a96b128/health.json
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