# IANA Timezone Current Time Lookup

> IANA Timezone Current Time Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from x402-datashop-production.up.railway.app, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns the current wall-clock time for any IANA timezone, including ISO datetime, date, time, day of week, and DST status.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402-datashop-production.up.railway.app/v1/time/zone
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/iana-timezone-current-time-lookup-275029e5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_M3cOfTLAsD_xFlzz53hWq

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 iana-timezone-current-time-lookup-275029e5
```

Example prompt: What's the current local time in Tokyo — specifically the date, time, day of the week, and whether daylight saving is active right now?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need the current local time, date, or DST status for a specific IANA timezone with high accuracy and DST awareness. Prefer it over manual UTC offset calculations, which don't account for DST transitions. Ideal for scheduling assistants, internationalization checks, or any workflow that must know the live local time in a given region.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized IANA timezone name returns an error (e.g. 'Europe/Paaris' instead of 'Europe/Paris')
- Missing required 'tz' query parameter returns a 400 or error response
- Ambiguous abbreviated timezone names (e.g. 'EST' vs 'America/New_York') may not be supported — use full IANA names
- Upstream timeapi.io outage may cause failure or stale data beyond the 60s cache window

## How this service works

Current wall-clock time for any IANA timezone, resolved live by timeapi.io (IANA tz database, includes DST rules). Query: ?tz=Europe/Paris (or America/New_York, Asia/Tokyo...). Returns ISO datetime, date, time, day_of_week and dst_active flag. Served with a 60s cache.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the current ISO datetime string, date, time, day_of_week (e.g. 'Monday'), and a dst_active boolean flag for the queried IANA timezone. Response is cached for up to 60 seconds.

## 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",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "tz"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "tz": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "IANA timezone name, e.g. Europe/Paris"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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