Time Difference MCP tool
findutils:time_difference Work out how long there is between two times of day, with no dates involved. Handles a shift that crosses midnight — 22:00 to 06:00 is eight hours, not minus sixteen — and can subtract an unpaid break. Accepts 24-hour times and am/pm, and returns the duration both as hours and minutes and as decimal hours for invoicing.
Arguments
application/json-
start
string required
Start time: "09:00", "9:00:30" or "9:00 am".
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end
string required
End time, same formats. "24:00" means the end of the day.
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overnight
string optional
auto wraps past midnight only when the end is not after the start. always puts the end on the NEXT day, so 09:00 to 17:00 becomes 32 hours. never refuses to wrap and errors instead. Default: auto. One of
auto · always · never. Default"auto". -
break_minutes
number optional
Unpaid break to subtract, in minutes. Default: 0. Default
0.
Example arguments
Verified{
"start": "22:00",
"end": "06:00"
}More Date & time tools
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