# PennyRail Locale Brief – Country Time & Holidays

> PennyRail Locale Brief – Country Time & Holidays is a paid API for AI agents from pennyrail.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns a brief locale snapshot for a given country, including current local time and public holidays

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://pennyrail.vercel.app/api/p/skill/locale.brief--country-time-holidays
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/pennyrail-locale-brief-country-time-holidays-0472a0c0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_rYMsaEsEqjBBd_Cdd1qU7

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 pennyrail-locale-brief-country-time-holidays-0472a0c0 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the current local time in Japan and what public holidays are coming up there this month?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, combined lookup of current local time and public holidays for a given country in a single call, especially in agentic workflows where locale-awareness is needed for scheduling, travel planning, or regional content customization. Prefer this over separate timezone and holiday APIs when a brief, bundled country snapshot is sufficient.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported or unrecognized country code/name returns an error or empty result
- Malformed input object causes validation failure
- Network or upstream data source timeout
- Holiday data may be incomplete or outdated for some regions
- Missing required 'input' field causes schema rejection

## How this service works

Machine-readable settlement service

## Output

Returns a structured locale brief for the specified country, including the current local time (with timezone), and a list of public holidays (names and dates). The response is a JSON object with flexible fields depending on the country's holiday data.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "additionalProperties": true
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/pennyrail-locale-brief-country-time-holidays-0472a0c0/health.json
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