Time Awareness

Provides accurate current time, market hours, timezone conversions, and prevents stale data by verifying time before responses.

SKILL.md - Time Awareness

Description

Never make time-sensitive mistakes again. Forces time verification before claims, prevents stale data, handles timezones correctly.

Price

Free

Commands

• "What time is it?" — Current time in multiple zones
• "Is the market open?" — Check market hours (ES, NQ, etc.)
• "When does the market open?" — Next market open time
• "Convert [time] to [timezone]" — Timezone conversion
• "Set my timezone to [zone]" — Configure your timezone

Quick Start

1. Set your timezone: "Set my timezone to America/Denver"
2. Check market status: "Is ES open?"
3. Get current time: "What time is it?"

Core Features

Time Verification

• Always verifies current time before claims
• Prevents stale data (configurable max age)
• Handles DST transitions correctly

Market Hours

• Supports ES, NQ, YM, CL, GC, and more
• Knows holidays and early closes
• RTH (Regular Trading Hours) and ETH (Extended)

Timezone Handling

• 500+ timezone database
• Automatic conversion
• UTC as reference

Examples

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You: "Is the market open?"
Agent: "ES is currently CLOSED. Opens Monday at 6:00 PM MT (pre-market)."

You: "What time is it in Tokyo?"
Agent: "It's 8:15 AM JST (Tuesday) in Tokyo."

You: "When does NQ open?"
Agent: "NQ opens in 2 hours 15 minutes (6:00 PM MT)."

Implementation

This skill uses Python's zoneinfo and datetime modules. No external API keys required.

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Time is money. Know it precisely.