Time Fetcher

Time Fetcher is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by shanraisshan in claude-code-best-practice.

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Install Time Fetcher

Copy Time Fetcher into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice/tree/main/agent-teams/.claude/skills/time-fetcher ~/.claude/skills/time-fetcher

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: agent-teams/.claude/skills/time-fetcher/SKILL.md in shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/time-fetcher
Collection: One of 10 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Time Fetcher does

Time Fetcher provides a bash command to fetch the current Dubai time in Asia/Dubai. Use it when you need the current time in Gulf Standard Time (UTC+4), including formatted and time-only fields.

Time Fetcher is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Time Fetcher comes from a repository tagged agentic-ai, agentic-coding, agentic-engineering, agentic-workflow and ai.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Dubai Time Fetcher

Command

TZ='Asia/Dubai' date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z'

Expected Output Format

YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS +04 (Gulf Standard Time)

Timezone Details

Timezone: Asia/Dubai
Offset: UTC+4
Abbreviation: GST (Gulf Standard Time)
Dubai does not observe daylight saving time

Return Format

Provide the following fields:

time: Just the time portion (HH:MM:SS)
timezone: "GST (UTC+4)"
formatted: The full output string from the command

Frequently asked about Time Fetcher

What else does shanraisshan publish alongside Time Fetcher?
Time Fetcher is one of 10 skills that DirSkills catalogs from shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Browser, Claude Code Extension Mechanisms and Pakistan Time. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Time Fetcher does, and is maintained by shanraisshan in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice page.
How does Time Fetcher compare to other Automation skills?
Time Fetcher ranks #27 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Time Fetcher against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.