Read from the clock.Never computed.
Language models are notoriously bad at telling the time — they compute offsets in their heads and get them wrong. This hands back a clean, copy-ready time block an AI can paste to re-ground itself. One read. No math. No drift.
What works today
Device · localRead straight off the machine you are onLive
Cloudflare · traceHosted feed — an independent second opinionLive
NTP · poolHosted feed — the reference the rest of the world usesLive
Public API · UTCHosted feed — a fourth voice, so two can disagreeLive
RefuseUnknown zone or offset returns an error, not a guess. No silent UTC fallback, no geo-IP inventionSoon
the clock
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source device · read, not computed
This readout is the DEVICE witness only — the machine you are on. The hosted witnesses are listed above and are not wired to this page yet, so it does not claim consensus it cannot show.
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