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The current time in a time zone, with offset, DST flag and ISO week

GET/v1/time/now

GET/v1/time/now

The current time in a time zone, with offset, DST flag and ISO week

Pass at to describe a specific instant instead of now — handy for tests and for "what time is it in Tokyo when it's 9am in New York" when combined with /v1/time/convert.

PARAMETERS
tzquery · string
IANA zone, e.g. America/New_York
e.g. Europe/Paris
atquery · string
ISO-8601 instant to describe instead of now
e.g. 2026-07-01T12:00:00Z
In the full reference
REQUEST
curl "https://api.apialmanac.com/v1/time/now" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"
RESPONSE
200OK
{
  "zone": "Europe/Paris",
  "iso": "2026-07-01T14:00:00+02:00",
  "date": "2026-07-01",
  "time": "14:00:00",
  "weekday": "Wednesday",
  "utc": "2026-07-01T12:00:00Z",
  "unix": 1782907200,
  "offset": "+02:00",
  "offset_minutes": 120,
  "abbreviation": "GMT+2",
  "dst": true,
  "dst_observed": true,
  "iso_week": 27,
  "iso_week_year": 2026,
  "day_of_year": 182
}
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