A precision-focused skill for retrieving real-time date and timezone information from time.is for any global location.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install time-checker
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install time-checker using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Time Checker?
The Time Checker is a specialized utility designed to provide developers and AI agents with accurate, real-time time data. By leveraging time.is as the primary data source, this tool within the Openclaw Skills library offers a gold-standard solution for fetching the exact time, date, and timezone offsets for cities and countries worldwide. It is specifically engineered to handle the nuances of global time zones that system clocks often miss, making it a reliable asset for scheduling and automation.
Whether you are building a personal assistant or managing global project logs, this skill ensures your environment remains synchronized with the rest of the world. It provides a robust alternative to basic NTP lookups by offering human-readable, location-specific results that are easily consumed by other tools in the Openclaw Skills ecosystem.
Time Checker Use Cases
- Verifying current time in specific cities to schedule international meetings.
- Automating time-aware responses for AI agents and personal assistants.
- Calculating timezone offsets to synchronize logs across distributed systems.
- Confirming local dates for region-specific task triggers.
How Time Checker Works
- The agent or user inputs a specific location name, such as a city or country.
- The skill invokes a Python script that targets the time.is web service.
- The script processes the location string and fetches the corresponding HTML data.
- Using parsing libraries, the skill extracts the precise time, date, and timezone metadata.
- The formatted results are returned to the user or integrated into a larger workflow.
Time Checker Setup
To use this component of your Openclaw Skills, you must first install the necessary Python dependencies for web scraping and request handling.
pip install requests beautifulsoup4
Once dependencies are met, you can query any location using the provided script:
python3 scripts/check_time.py "New York"
Time Checker Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill processes and returns data based on the following structure to ensure consistency across Openclaw Skills integrations:
| Attribute | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Location | String | The city or region requested by the user. |
| Current Time | String | The exact hour, minute, and second at the destination. |
| Date | String | The local calendar date for the queried area. |
| Source | URL | The external authority used for data verification (time.is). |
Time Checker Advanced Features
- Smart location parsing that handles spaces, underscores, and hyphenated city names automatically.
- Deep integration capabilities for custom AI personas to deliver time data in specific tones.
- High-accuracy scraping logic designed to bypass common errors in basic time API calls.
- Support for granular city-level data to ensure accuracy over broad country-level queries.
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