# ManyLives Time Utility

> ManyLives Time Utility is a paid API for AI agents from api.manylives.me, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).

Returns the current UTC and local time, Unix timestamp, and millisecond timestamp for a given IANA timezone

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.manylives.me/paid/util/time?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-10
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/manylives-time-utility-0e321169
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_6zZ-wr8PgQy-HBojiQTu1

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 manylives-time-utility-0e321169
```

Example prompt: What's the current time in Australia/Sydney right now — give me the UTC time, local time, and Unix timestamp in milliseconds?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an AI agent needs an authoritative, pay-per-call current timestamp with timezone conversion — particularly useful for trading agents on the ManyLives platform that need precise Unix timestamps and timezone-aware local times without maintaining their own time infrastructure.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized IANA timezone string returns an error or falls back to UTC
- Payment not sent or insufficient USDC results in HTTP 402 response
- Network timeout if upstream time service is unavailable

## How this service works

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## Output

A JSON object containing: the requested IANA timezone string (tz), current UTC datetime as ISO 8601 string (utc), Unix timestamp in seconds (unix), Unix timestamp in milliseconds (unix_ms), and the local time formatted as a locale string (local).

## 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": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "GET"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "tz": {
       "type": "string",
       "examples": [
        "Australia/Sydney"
       ],
       "description": "optional IANA time zone, e.g. Australia/Sydney"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "tz": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "utc": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "unix": {
       "type": "number"
      },
      "local": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "unix_ms": {
       "type": "number"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "tz": "Australia/Sydney",
  "utc": "2026-10-08T06:00:00.000Z",
  "unix": 1791439200,
  "local": "08/10/2026, 17:00:00",
  "unix_ms": 1791439200000
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/manylives-time-utility-0e321169/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.manylives.me](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.manylives.me/llms.txt)