# ScrapeMole Pulse: Current Time & Timezone Lookup

> ScrapeMole Pulse: Current Time & Timezone Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from pulse.scrapemole.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-13).

Returns the current UTC time and DST-aware local time for one or more IANA time zones

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pulse.scrapemole.workers.dev/v1/time/now?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrapemole-pulse-current-time-timezone-lookup-187f4a69
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_losqBKFrWDeg_x7wNCttX

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 scrapemole-pulse-current-time-timezone-lookup-187f4a69
```

Example prompt: What is the current time right now in Europe/Vilnius, America/New_York, and Asia/Tokyo, including whether daylight saving is active in each?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs the actual current wall-clock time in one or more specific IANA time zones, especially when DST correctness matters for scheduling. It is preferable over static UTC offsets or LLM knowledge because it reflects real-time DST transitions. Ideal for multi-timezone meeting scheduling, log timestamp correlation, or any workflow where 'what time is it now in X?' must be answered accurately. Payment is $0.001 USDC per call with no account required.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized IANA timezone string returns an error for that zone
- Requesting more than 20 timezones in a single call exceeds the limit
- Payment failure (402) if USDC balance is insufficient or x402 handshake fails
- Network timeout if the edge worker is temporarily unavailable

## How this service works

Pay-per-call "state of the world" lookups that language models cannot know on their own: official ECB exchange rates (latest, historical, conversion), the current time and DST-aware time-zone conversion for scheduling, global weather forecasts (MET Norway, by coordinates or place name) and the live Hacker News front page. Public, non-personal data with sources and licences in every response. USDC via x402, no accounts.

Payments: x402 v2, scheme "exact", USDC on Base (eip155:8453). The payment is verified before the work and settled only when the response is 200. Terms: https://pulse.scrapemole.workers.dev/terms

## Output

A JSON object containing the current UTC timestamp, Unix epoch value, and an array of zone objects — each with the local date, time, ISO 8601 local datetime, weekday name, UTC offset string, DST boolean, and timezone abbreviation. Source attribution (IANA time zone database) is included.

## 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",
       "default": "UTC",
       "examples": [
        "Europe/Vilnius,America/New_York,Asia/Tokyo"
       ],
       "description": "Comma-separated IANA zones (max 20)."
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "utc": "2026-10-12T07:30:00.000Z",
  "unix": 1791790200,
  "zones": [
   {
    "dst": true,
    "date": "2026-10-12",
    "time": "10:30:00",
    "local": "2026-10-12T10:30:00+03:00",
    "weekday": "Monday",
    "timeZone": "Europe/Vilnius",
    "utcOffset": "+03:00",
    "abbreviation": "GMT+3"
   }
  ],
  "source": "IANA time zone database"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/scrapemole-pulse-current-time-timezone-lookup-187f4a69/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from pulse.scrapemole.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/pulse.scrapemole.workers.dev/llms.txt)