# `com.gumballtools/timezone-truth` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.gumballtools/timezone-truth
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.gumballtools/timezone-truth
- Version: 0.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.gumballtools (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/bwalvoord/gumball
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:56:17.806Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Timezone Truth
Convert times between IANA zones and detect skipped or ambiguous DST local times.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:13:15.397Z over streamable-http.

**1 tool: 1 do something that can't be undone.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 1 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 0 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 0 | allow |

## Findings

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `convert_time` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "convert_time" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "irreversible".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "convert_time" says "convert": a word for a change.
```


## Can't be undone (1)

Sends, pays, publishes or merges: once done, it cannot be taken back. Claude Code: ask.

### `convert_time`

- The name "convert_time" says "convert": a word for a change.
- The input addresses people (input.to): what it sends cannot be taken back.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Convert a wall-clock time between two IANA timezones, and report the ways the conversion can be wrong.

ALWAYS use this instead of doing the arithmetic. Timezone conversion looks like addition and is not: the mapping from a local time to an instant is not a function.

- On the spring-forward date, an hour of local time DOES NOT EXIST. Asked to convert 02:30 on that date, a model will return a plausible timestamp for a time that never happens. This tool returns null and says why.
- On the fall-back date, an hour happens TWICE. There are two correct answers an hour apart; this returns both rather than silently choosing.
- The gap between two zones is not constant. Zones start and end daylight saving on different dates, so a cached offset is wrong for weeks each year.
- Not all offsets are whole hours: India is +05:30, Nepal +05:45.

Input: `time` must be YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM (or with T, and optional seconds) — free-form dates are refused rather than guessed. `from` and `to` must be full IANA names such as "America/New_York".

ABBREVIATIONS ARE REJECTED, deliberately, even though most runtimes accept them. Node resolves "BST" to Bangladesh Standard Time (UTC+06:00) when nearly everyone writing it means British Summer Time (UTC+01:00) — a five-hour error that yields a perfectly plausible timestamp. Same for CST, IST, PST, and EST.

Returns: the chosen UTC instant (null if the local time does not exist), every candidate instant, both zone readings with the offset and abbreviation that applied on THAT date, the difference between the zones, upcoming clock changes for both, and warnings. Check `warnings` for severity "error" before using the result.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `timezone-truth`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__timezone-truth__convert_time"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```