Clock

Ask your AI assistant what time it is anywhere in the world, convert between timezones, or figure out how far apart two moments are, with no separate app required. Clock requires no permissions at all.

Clock is off by default

Clock is free, but it is not enabled by default — only Reminders and Calendar are turned on automatically after onboarding. Open the Orchard menu bar panel, go to the integrations list, and switch Clock on before your AI client can use it.

Orchard's app integrations list with toggle switches, including Clock

What you can do

“What time is it in Tokyo right now?”
“Convert 2pm Eastern time on July 14th to Central European Time.”
“How many hours until my flight lands at 6am in Singapore, given it’s currently 11pm here?”
“List timezones in Europe.”
“What’s the time difference between these two timestamps?”

Available tools

Tool	Description
`clock_time`	Get the current time in a timezone, or convert a specific time from one timezone to another.
`clock_util`	List available timezones (optionally filtered by region), or calculate the difference between two ISO 8601 times.

clock_time behaves differently depending on whether to_timezone is provided: omit it to get the current time in timezone (defaults to your Mac’s system timezone); provide it along with time to convert a specific moment between timezones. clock_util uses an action parameter set to list_timezones or difference. clock_time also accepts an optional calendar_identifier (gregorian, buddhist, chinese, hebrew, islamic, japanese, and others) to format the current time in a non-Gregorian calendar.

Required permissions

None. Clock reads only the system clock and macOS’s built-in timezone data, so it doesn’t need Calendars, Reminders, Automation, or Full Disk Access, and no permission prompt appears at all.

CLI usage

The orchard clock command exposes both operations as subcommands.

orchard clock time --timezone "Asia/Tokyo"

orchard clock time --timezone "America/New_York" --to-timezone "Europe/Paris" --time "2026-07-14T14:00:00"

Add --calendar-identifier to format the current time in a non-Gregorian calendar, for example the traditional Chinese calendar:

orchard clock time --timezone "Asia/Shanghai" --calendar-identifier chinese

--calendar-identifier is ignored whenever --to-timezone is set — timezone conversion always reports in the Gregorian calendar.

orchard clock util --action list_timezones --region Europe

orchard clock util --action difference --time1 "2026-07-13T23:00:00Z" --time2 "2026-07-14T06:00:00Z"

Both subcommands accept --json for machine-readable output:

orchard clock time --json

Run orchard clock <subcommand> --help (or orchard help clock <subcommand>) for the full flag list — see the CLI Reference for more.

Tips & limitations

Clock has no countdown timer or Pomodoro-style features: it only reports current time, converts between timezones, and computes differences.
Because Clock needs no macOS permission, it works immediately over SSH or in headless sessions once you enable it in the integrations list.
Time and timezone parameters always expect ISO 8601 strings; timezone identifiers follow the IANA format (America/New_York, Asia/Shanghai), not abbreviations like EST.