# Foundry Time Now

> Foundry Time Now is a paid API for AI agents from minty-sprout.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-01).

Returns the current time in any IANA timezone, including ISO timestamp, Unix epoch, UTC offset, weekday, and timezone abbreviation.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://minty-sprout.onrender.com/v1/time-now?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-01
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/foundry-time-now-c89368cb
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_fpYirKNQcKOsv3izq3O0_

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 foundry-time-now-c89368cb -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the current time in Tokyo? Give me the ISO timestamp, Unix epoch, and what day of the week it is there — the IANA timezone is Asia/Tokyo.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need the current wall-clock time in a specific IANA timezone and want structured output including ISO format, Unix timestamp, weekday, and UTC offset in a single call. Prefer it over general-purpose time libraries when operating inside an agent that needs a lightweight, pay-per-call API with no authentication setup.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or misspelled IANA timezone name returns an error
- Empty input or missing timezone field returns a validation error
- Service unavailability on the Render host may cause timeouts or 5xx errors

## How this service works

Current time in any timezone: ISO time, unix timestamp, UTC offset, weekday. Input: IANA timezone, e.g. 'Europe/London'.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with: iso (ISO 8601 datetime string with offset), date (YYYY-MM-DD), time (HH:MM:SS), unix (Unix epoch integer), weekday (e.g. 'Sunday'), timezone (the input IANA name), utc_offset (e.g. '+0000'), and abbreviation (e.g. 'GMT').

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 8000,
   "description": "IANA timezone name, e.g. 'Europe/London' or 'Asia/Karachi'"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "iso": "2026-11-01T10:00:00+00:00",
  "date": "2026-11-01",
  "time": "10:00:00",
  "unix": 1793527200,
  "weekday": "Sunday",
  "timezone": "Europe/London",
  "utc_offset": "+0000",
  "abbreviation": "GMT"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/foundry-time-now-c89368cb/health.json
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