truetime

What This Skill Does

TrueTime is a specialized agent skill designed to eliminate temporal ambiguity and scheduling errors. It provides a deterministic bridge between human-expressed time—which is often prone to DST-related drift, timezone confusion, or calculation errors—and machine-precise UTC execution. By forcing a canonical UTC calculation path before any local representation is generated, TrueTime ensures that "in two weeks" or "next month at 9 AM" resolves to the exact intended moment regardless of where the server or the user is located. It handles complex calendar math, NTP-sourced time synchronization, and multi-timezone coordination effortlessly.

Installation

To integrate the TrueTime skill into your OpenClaw environment, run the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/cccat6/truetime

Ensure that your environment has access to the standard Node.js runtime as the skill utilizes internal scripts for deterministic clock calculations.

Use Cases

TrueTime is essential for any task involving temporal precision:

• Global Team Coordination: Scheduling meetings across Asia/Shanghai, UTC, and America/New_York without "timezone math" mistakes.
• Calendar Automation: Automating reminders that respect both wall-clock time and calendar-specific rules like Chinese lunar date markers or DST shifts.
• Deadline Management: Calculating absolute timestamps for cron jobs or automated tasks that require strictly calculated intervals (e.g., "execute in 3 hours and 15 minutes").
• Drift Mitigation: Synchronizing critical actions with NTP-sourced time to avoid server-side clock skews.

Example Prompts

1. "Schedule a team sync for 9:00 AM next Tuesday in Tokyo time, and tell me what time that will be for my team in Los Angeles and London."
2. "Remind me to submit my report in exactly 1 month and 2 weeks from today, accounting for the daylight savings switch in New York."
3. "Convert 2026-02-17 at 09:30:00 Shanghai time to a UTC timestamp, then show me the equivalent time in a UTC+2 timezone."

Tips & Limitations

Always provide the specific timezone context if your intent is location-sensitive. While the skill is highly precise, it relies on the provided environment's Node.js runtime; ensure your system clock is reasonably synchronized. The skill is designed to prevent "example value poisoning" by strictly parsing your input, so feel free to use natural language; the underlying logic handles the translation to UTC-first math automatically.