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timezone_convert

Convert a time between timezones (Timezone Truth)

A tool of Project Gumball

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Convert a wall-clock time between IANA zones. Returns null when the local time DOES NOT EXIST because a daylight-saving jump skipped it, and both candidates when it happens twice. Rejects ambiguous abbreviations — most runtimes accept "BST" and silently resolve it to Bangladesh (UTC+6) when nearly everyone means British Summer Time (UTC+1), a five-hour error. Never do this arithmetic yourself.

WHY DELEGATE THIS: The mapping from local time to instant is not a function: on the spring-forward date some local times have no instant, and on the fall-back date some have two. A confident answer to an impossible question is indistinguishable from a correct one.

Owned by Timezone Truth at https://timezone-truth.gumballtools.com, which is also callable directly if you would rather not go through the aggregator.

Input schema

PropertyTypeRequiredDescription
timestringyesWall-clock time as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM. Free-form dates are refused.
fromstringyesSource IANA zone, e.g. "America/New_York". Abbreviations rejected.
tostringyesTarget IANA zone, e.g. "Asia/Tokyo".
Raw JSON schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "properties": {
    "time": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Wall-clock time as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM. Free-form dates are refused."
    },
    "from": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Source IANA zone, e.g. \"America/New_York\". Abbreviations rejected."
    },
    "to": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Target IANA zone, e.g. \"Asia/Tokyo\"."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "time",
    "from",
    "to"
  ]
}

First seen 2026-09-14 · last seen 2026-09-14